2024 Events
Fall 2024 events
The salmon are jumping the falls, vaux swifts are swirling around Chapman School, my apple trees are dropping their heavy fruit, and the river is starting to feel a little cooler. Fall!
Saturday EcoSwim Clinics with Portland Refugee Support Group at Northeast Community Center: September 21st from 2-4p, October 26th from 11:30a-1:30p. Culturally specific, women only.
Sunday EcoSwim Clinics with Bienestar at Forest Grove Aquatic Center: September 22, October 20, November 17, December TBD. 3:30-5:30p. Delivered in Spanish and English.
Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor Certification October 12, 9a-5p at Northeast Community Center
Winter - Spring 2025 dates TBD
Participant Registration
Register to Volunteer
Volunteers receive a WaterStrong t-shirt, swim cap, gift card of appreciation, light meal, and orientation in the Eco-Swim curriculum. Animamos a hispanohablantes, estan muy bienvenidos. Spanish speakers are heartily encouraged to join.
WaterStrong programs destroy access barriers for underserved children and their families through programming in survival swimming, water safety and environmental education around water. Most of our programs are delivered in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region. They include Swim! Learn! Thrive! Eco-Swim Clinics, basic first aid/CPR/AED training, lifeguard and water safety certification, and WaterStrong Instructor Workshops. We want you to fall in love with the water, have fun, and be safe. It is our goal to build up lifesaving skills, water education and awareness skills, and survival swimming skills.
To deliver these programs we rely on volunteers who love the water (no need to be a stellar swimmer), are comfortable teaching, and are great team players. Big bonus if you speak Spanish and/or live in a community that WaterStrong serves.
Interested in joining Team WaterStrong? Please send an email to Dena at dena@waterstrong.org.
