KELLY ROGERS HALE
FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER
RICHARD KLINE, JR
FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER
JONATHAN LOWE
FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER
THOMAS HALEY
FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER
As told by Laura Metro, the founder of CPR Party™
"Around 11 AM on June 18, 2011, my three-year-old son Clay almost died by drowning in a community pool. Our friends were watching he and our six-year-old daughter Maison, while my husband and I took my father's dog on a jog. We were in Bethany Beach, DE on vacation/dog sitting. We arrived on the scene to our daughter running out of the pool screaming, "I think Clay died!" "I think Clay died!" My husband and I ran into the pool to find Clay, laying on the pool deck, blue, lifeless, with no breath or heartbeat. Our friend was doing "his version" of CPR, pretty much what he'd seen on TV. The paramedics arrived. They got his heart beat back, intubated Clay on the scene, shot IVs into his knees and started hypothermia treatment. Clay and I were medivac to Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. My husband and our friend who performed the CPR drove two hours in silence from the beach to the hospital. Clay was in a coma for two days. The good news is, he made a miraculous recovery and is a healthy eight-year-old boy!"
OUR STORY
This is not the typical outcome to this story. In fact, for every death by drowning, there are eight non-fatal drowning events. These children and adults usually sustain brain injuries that require lifetime medical care. As a result, families are destroyed emotionally and financially. The total cost of non-fatal drowning is $6.2 billion annually and it's totally preventable.
Since its inception in 2012, CPR Party™ (a program of The C.L.A.Y. Foundation 501C3) has made a significant mark bringing CPR awareness training to the masses and on the child drowning awareness initiative by hosting the DC area’s first ever World’s Largest Swimming Lesson and launching their one hour #CPRParty program on a national level. In 2015, they made their flagship CPR training format, CPRParty™, the sole mission of the foundation.
They will continue to raise awareness of childhood drowning through their nationwide public relations efforts, founding membership in the Families United To Prevent Drowning @nochilddrowns , official partnership with the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) @PoolSafely campaign and sitting on the board of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance (NDPA) @drownalliance .
WHO WE ARE
FOUNDERS
LAURA METRO
RON SHAPIRO (4.2.45 - 9.5.16)
BOARD
BRIDGET CALHOUN
JEREMY GRUBER
KELLY ROGERS HALE
THOMAS HALEY
RICHARD KLINE, JR
DARREN KLUGMAN, M.D.
BONNIE LIEB
JONATHAN LOWE
MATTHEW A. METRO
CHIEF JOHN WATSON
CPR PARTNER
RESCUE ONE
TRAINING FOR LIFE
PARTNERS
FAMILIES UNITED TO PREVENT DROWNING
CPSC POOL SAFELY
NATIONAL DROWNING PREVENTION ALLIANCE
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION