The Oprah Campaign

The Diversity in Aquatics Program is working with the National Drowning Prevention Alliance (NDPA) in an effort to have the drowning epidemic highlighted on the Oprah Winfrey Show during her last season. Oprah Winfrey has enormous reach and can educate millions of people and so we would like to take part in this “Oprah Campaign” to further our work in decreasing the rate of drowning. We need your help. Please take a few minutes to email the producers by visiting the following link, https://www.oprah.com/ownshow/plug_form.html?plug_id=216. The campaign begins today, January 24th and ends on February 14th so please be sure to send your email soon!

For your convenience, we have drafted a template of a message to use in support of a segment of the show being allocated towards water safety. Please be prepared to share your name, age, email, mailing address, and telephone number.

Tags: Center for Disease Control, Diversity in Aquatics, Make A Splash, National Drowning Prevention Alliance, National Swimming Pool Foundation, Oprah, Red River, The Swim for Life Foundation, U.S. Swim School Association, Unintentional Drownings, More…Water Survival NFP

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Comment by Laurie Batter on January 25, 2011 at 10:58am: thank you! have you had a chance to view the video?

Comment by Jayson Jackson on January 25, 2011 at 9:19am: You're welcome Laurie. We appreciate the continued support.

Comment by Laurie Batter on January 25, 2011 at 8:21am: Thanks for adding in NSPF Jason!

FYI, I did email the producers - they have a 2000 word character limit; after a bit of fussing around, I found that I could include everything, except the addresses for the references; and also my name/title but that was included in the form.

Comment by Della kephart on January 24, 2011 at 10:16pm: Your welcome! Lets pray!! Della

Comment by Jayson Jackson on January 24, 2011 at 9:36pm: Thanks Marva and Della! We appreciate the support.

Comment by MARVA REID on January 24, 2011 at 8:03pm: I posted on FACEBOOK. and I filled out the form.

Comment by Della kephart on January 24, 2011 at 7:54pm: Thank you!!! I did!!! Della

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