Life Jacket Safety

The weather is heating up and many families are making their way to area lakes to cool off. And if they don’t already have a life jacket – a Lifeguard Your Child initiative aims to make sure they are protected in and around the water.

The Center for Community Health led by Cook Children’s installed its first loaner life jacket station in the spring of 2020. The stations provide five different sizes of U.S. Coast Guard approved life jackets, ranging from infant to adult, that can be borrowed and returned. The goal is to make sure no child or adult drowns at a public lake because they didn’t have access to a life jacket. The loaner life jacket program has several stations at lakes across DFW, including Cleburne, Alvarado, Flower Mound, Grapevine, Weatherford and Lewisville.

Thank you to Linbeck Group, LLC for constructing the loaner life jacket stations and ensuring community members stay safe while around water.

To learn more about the loaner life jacket program and other safety measures, visit lifeguardyourchild.com