Working Together to Prevent Drowning in Indiana
Drowning prevention takes more than one organization. It takes committed community partners, local businesses, schools, public safety agencies, healthcare providers, aquatics professionals, neighborhood leaders, and families working together toward one shared goal: zero preventable drowning deaths in Indiana.
Goal Zero: Indiana Drowning Prevention partners with organizations across Indiana to expand water safety education, improve access to swim lessons, support lifesaving equipment placement, and reach communities before tragedy happens.
When your organization partners with Goal Zero, you help build safer communities around pools, lakes, rivers, retention ponds, and other bodies of water.
Why Community Partnerships Matter
Drowning can happen quickly, silently, and in places families visit every day. Prevention requires education, access, awareness, and practical safety resources placed where people need them most.
Community partners help Goal Zero reach more people by supporting:
- Water safety education for children, families, and caregivers
- Swim lesson access for individuals and families facing barriers
- Life ring stations near high-risk water areas
- Public awareness campaigns across Indiana
- Drowning prevention outreach at schools, events, and community programs
- First responder and public safety water safety initiatives
- Safer environments around pools, ponds, lakes, rivers, and public access areas
Every partnership helps move Indiana closer to a future where preventable drowning deaths are no longer accepted as unavoidable tragedies.
Who Can Become a Community Partner?
Goal Zero welcomes partnerships with organizations that care about public safety, child safety, health, recreation, education, and community well-being.
Community partners may include:
- Local businesses
- Schools and school districts
- Parks and recreation departments
- Swim schools and aquatics programs
- Public safety agencies
- Healthcare organizations
- Neighborhood associations
- Civic groups
- Faith-based organizations
- Youth sports organizations
- Foundations and grant funders
- Corporate sponsors
- Community service organizations
Whether your organization wants to sponsor a life ring station, host a water safety presentation, fund swim lessons, provide event space, volunteer, or support community outreach, there is a meaningful way to get involved.
Ways to Partner With Goal Zero
Sponsor a Life Ring Station
A life ring station gives bystanders a safe, immediate way to help someone in distress without entering the water themselves. Community partners can sponsor life ring stations placed near retention ponds, parks, neighborhoods, public water access areas, and other high-risk locations across Indiana.
Support Swim Lesson Access
Swimming lessons save lives, but cost and access can be barriers for many families. Partners can help fund swim lessons, sponsor scholarships, or connect families with trusted aquatics programs.
Host a Water Safety Program
Goal Zero can work with community partners to provide drowning prevention education for schools, parent groups, neighborhood associations, youth organizations, and community events.
Support Public Awareness Campaigns
Businesses and organizations can help share drowning prevention messages through websites, social media, newsletters, posters, community boards, and local events.
Provide In-Kind Support
Partners can support the mission through donated services, printing, equipment, event space, marketing support, professional expertise, or volunteer time.
Become a Corporate Sponsor
Corporate partners help fund ongoing drowning prevention programs, outreach, education, equipment, and community safety initiatives throughout Indiana.
Benefits of Becoming a Community Partner
Community partners help save lives while showing visible support for water safety and public service in Indiana.
Partner benefits may include:
- Recognition on the Goal Zero website
- Public acknowledgment at events or campaigns
- Logo placement for qualifying sponsorships
- Social media recognition
- Community impact reporting
- Opportunities for employee engagement and volunteerism
- Association with a mission focused on prevention, safety, and saving lives
Most importantly, your partnership helps protect children, families, and communities from preventable drowning tragedies.
Our Shared Mission
Goal Zero believes one drowning is too many. Through community partnerships, we can bring water safety education, lifesaving resources, and prevention-focused programs to more people across Indiana.
Together, we can help families recognize risk, improve access to safety resources, and create safer environments around water.
Become a Community Partner
If your business, school, agency, or organization wants to support drowning prevention in Indiana, we would be honored to work with you.
Partner with Goal Zero today and help us build safer communities around water.