Please 'Like' The Connor Cares Foundation on Facebook

[JacksonsMom]

We are in the process of renovating everything for my little brother's foundation. He died in 2006 due to a drowning at a public pool so we started a foundation that same year.

We have done some great things with it... we have donated defibrillators to lots of local pools, created scholarship funds, education about drowning and promoting drowning awareness. We have also been involved in aiding other families who have lost children, not only to drowning.

Anyways I am getting back on the ball with the foundation!!! I am so pumped up and ready to help other people. We have been slacking, life gets in the way, things happen, depression, etc, that the family deals with but now we are on a roll again. We just updated the website, but still have minor improvements to make... Home Page | Connor Cares - we will be working on that all week.


But anyways...

I just created a fan 'like' page for Connor Cares Foundation last week and it would be amazing if every single person who reads this w/ a FB would like it!
Connor Cares Foundation | Facebook

I also just updated our twitter account. I am going to get more followers and begin updating that more- Twitter

Thanks!! You guys rock!!!

Also - if any one of you guys in the area (or not) would like to attend our Comedy Night, it's always a real good time. Last year we had Dave Coulier from Full House... this year our main is Frank Nicotero from Comedy Central Street Smarts and he is hysterical. But we are working on more guests too.

 

[JessLough]

Liked It is a really great thing you guys are doing, I am just sorry about the circumstances for its creation.

 

[skittledoo]

I'm going to like it right now. This is such an amazing foundation and I really hope that it will save the lives of other people. My youngest sister had an incident at a pool a couple years ago. It wasn't a drowning incident though. She was a little kid and climbing up one of those really really high diving boards. She got to the top and was about to step on the board and fell backward. She ended up landing on the concrete right next to the pool and broke her leg in multiple places. I'm really sorry this happened to you and your family.

 

[Renee750il]

Liked from my personal and Tags page

 

[umterps97]

Liked! The web page looks great!

 

[JacksonsMom]

You guys are amazing- thank you!

It's something so little but it means a lot to see the page growing. Heck, the foundation is growing, little by little. We hope to take it nationwide.

We had an e-mail recently that just made us feel awesome. We helped a lot of kids who couldn't afford drownproofing lessons through their school, and we sponsored them and they were able to take the lessons. We were so happy to hear, because it was actually a lot of kids, and we did not realize how many were unable to do it!

Also, if anyone is good at nonprofits, we are always up for new ideas, etc.

 

[DogKisses]

I liked it!

 

[PlottMom]

Like! And didn't realize you were relatively close... and I love comedy... we'll have to see

 

[Fran101]

Liked!

 

[Renee750il]

"Drownproofing" works. When I was a kid and my sister was just a year and a half old my mom insisted that I have private swimming lessons. The teacher also taught something similar to what has become drownproofing and Fey had those. One afternoon when mom left me to hold Fey on the pool deck while she went in and got her bathing suit on (by the way, NEVER, EVER expect a slender 7 year old to be able to hang onto a large, squirmy, strong and determined toddler!) and Fey, naturally, gave a huge squirming heave and threw herself out of my grip and into the pool.

She sank like a stone, but before I could even get in was already swimming up to the top, toward the ladder, so all I had to do was get in the water and help her up the ladder.

Mom busted my ass for trying to drown my sister, of course.

 

[Dogs6]

Liked and got my family to like

 

[JacksonsMom]

Thank you guys sooo much!

 

[milos_mommy]

I liked it!

They just introduced a law in my county stating all school field trips to beaches require a life vest for every child.

 

[Island dog]

Hit the Like. Take care.

 

[JacksonsMom]

I liked it!

They just introduced a law in my county stating all school field trips to beaches require a life vest for every child.

What a fantastic law! More like this need to be set in place.

It's so difficult to get people to LISTEN, too. We've been trying to create Connor's Law for 3yrs now. Make it mandatory to have a defibrillator at every public pool in our county. I can't believe it's not a law already, to be honest, it seems so common sense.

Not just having the AED there but also having trained personnel there to use it. There was an AED at the pool the day Connor died but no one knew how to use it, according to the 911 call.

Also, right now, the law only requires 1 lifeguard per every 50 children in the pool. And to me, this 1 per 50 ratio is insane.

 

[JessLough]

What a fantastic law! More like this need to be set in place.

It's so difficult to get people to LISTEN, too. We've been trying to create Connor's Law for 3yrs now. Make it mandatory to have a defibrillator at every public pool in our county. I can't believe it's not a law already, to be honest, it seems so common sense.

Not just having the AED there but also having trained personnel there to use it. There was an AED at the pool the day Connor died but no one knew how to use it, according to the 911 call.

Also, right now, the law only requires 1 lifeguard per every 50 children in the pool. And to me, this 1 per 50 ratio is insane.

This is why I think every person who is working in the public should have to take a First Aid/CPR course. It will teach you how to use them.

Personally, I think every parent should too, but then it just gets complicated.

ETA: Wait, what?! Every 1 per 50?! That is insane :yikes: At public pools here, there HAS to be 2 lifeguards on active duty (one on the opposite sides furthest apart), and at least one waiting for rotation (they rotate every half hour), with there needing two waiting for rotation during peak hours.

 

[nikkiluvsu15]

Liked!

This is also something near to me. A little boy I used to babysit drowned in his own pool, he was outside with his "older" brothers (the oldest was *maybe* 7-8 at the time) and the mother was inside. No one really knows what happened, but he did end up drowning. He was 2 years old.

Then a few years, on New Years Eve ago. A family I grew up with (went to the same church, we were all home schooled and went on field trips together, etc.), their oldest son David was trying to swim across the Suwannee River and got caught up in a rip current and drowned. His sister and 2-3 of their friends were there with him and there was nothing they could do to help him.

 

[JacksonsMom]

This is why I think every person who is working in the public should have to take a First Aid/CPR course. It will teach you how to use them.

Personally, I think every parent should too, but then it just gets complicated.

ETA: Wait, what?! Every 1 per 50?! That is insane :yikes: At public pools here, there HAS to be 2 lifeguards on active duty (one on the opposite sides furthest apart), and at least one waiting for rotation (they rotate every half hour), with there needing two waiting for rotation during peak hours.

Totally agree. I also think every parent should, too, but like you said, that's getting complicated.

And yep, that is Maryland law right now. Now, a lot of pools implement their own set of rules and require 2 or more to be up, but it's not state law.

Liked!

This is also something near to me. A little boy I used to babysit drowned in his own pool, he was outside with his "older" brothers (the oldest was *maybe* 7-8 at the time) and the mother was inside. No one really knows what happened, but he did end up drowning. He was 2 years old.

Then a few years, on New Years Eve ago. A family I grew up with (went to the same church, we were all home schooled and went on field trips together, etc.), their oldest son David was trying to swim across the Suwannee River and got caught up in a rip current and drowned. His sister and 2-3 of their friends were there with him and there was nothing they could do to help him.

Soo sad. Ever since Connor died, I realize how often it truly does happen. And how quickly. Ya know, people are so quick to judge parents (and obviously leaving a 2 year old by a pool with just a 7-8yr old watching is a dumb move) but I think people just don't realize how a few seconds can turn deadly around water for kids. That's why our goal is to just make people aware, because so many people aren't. Florida is a state where it is actually the leading cause of death, along with other warmer climates, like California, Arizona, Texas, etc, where people swim more often.

Something else that's been happening more lately is children getting their intestines ripped out of them from pool drains. A law recently passed here after a senator's (I think) granddaughter died this way.

It also happened to this little girl.... Abbey's Hope