Each year during the last week of October, schools and organizations around the country join in the Red Ribbon Week campaign, the nation's largest drug prevention effort. This year, Red Ribbon Week was celebrated from October 23rd-31st featuring the theme "The Best ME Is Drug Free!".
Red Ribbon Week offers the opportunity for schools and communities to take a stand together against drug use and show their commitment to drug prevention efforts.
At YES! Safe Choices for Kids, we kicked off our annual Red Ribbon Week Poster Contest for YES! LEADS elementary schools across Broome, Tioga and Chenango counties, looking for artwork featuring this year's Red Ribbon Week theme as well a few themes we came up with on our own. We've already received some artwork, and look forward to seeing what other classes have come up with.
Other schools celebrated Red Ribbon Week in their own way. Vestal High School launched a district-wide Red Ribbon Week celebration, giving red ribbons out to every student to show their dedication.
R.T. Stank Middle School held a week long campaign featuring various fun themed days, culminating in red shirt day and a Fun Night on Friday.
Seton Catholic High Schoolers visited middle school classrooms to talk with students about drug prevention efforts.
Bainbridge-Guilford High School YES! LEADers visited classrooms to help students with their poster for the Red Ribbon Week Poster Contest.
Red Ribbon Week continues to be successful in our YES! LEADS schools, as well as across the community and the country.
For more information on Red Ribbon Week, visit www.imdrugfree.com.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Return of YES! Ignites Is A Huge Success!
After a three year hiatus, YES! Safe Choices for Kids brought back their YES! Ignites training on October 23rd.
Almost 500 students from Broome, Tioga and Chenango counties showed up for a day of fun, leadership training and life skills development in a day long training at the Binghamton Riverwalk.
This year's keynote speaker, Mike Hall from Charleston, North Carolina, spoke with the YES! LEADers in attendance about the importance of living the life that was given to them and not merely admiring other people's lives.
Throughout the day, students attended various workshops including local drug trends, activities that teach, bullying, stress and conflict and a social media awareness seminar offered by different local organizations including Lourdes Hospital, the Broome County Sheriff's Department and OLWEUS. These workshops were designed to give YES! LEADers the skills they need to both enforce their safe decision making and help them with their presentations.
It was a very fun day for everyone in attendance, and YES! was happy to bring it back again.
YES! has been even happier to allow Mike Hall to stay through the week and present to schools throughout the three counties, bringing his message to over 2000 other students.
To check out pictures from the return of YES! Ignites, visit our Facebook page, or click here.
Almost 500 students from Broome, Tioga and Chenango counties showed up for a day of fun, leadership training and life skills development in a day long training at the Binghamton Riverwalk.
This year's keynote speaker, Mike Hall from Charleston, North Carolina, spoke with the YES! LEADers in attendance about the importance of living the life that was given to them and not merely admiring other people's lives.
Throughout the day, students attended various workshops including local drug trends, activities that teach, bullying, stress and conflict and a social media awareness seminar offered by different local organizations including Lourdes Hospital, the Broome County Sheriff's Department and OLWEUS. These workshops were designed to give YES! LEADers the skills they need to both enforce their safe decision making and help them with their presentations.
It was a very fun day for everyone in attendance, and YES! was happy to bring it back again.
YES! has been even happier to allow Mike Hall to stay through the week and present to schools throughout the three counties, bringing his message to over 2000 other students.
To check out pictures from the return of YES! Ignites, visit our Facebook page, or click here.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
October is National Bullying Prevention Month
The End of Bullying Begins with Me: that’s the message during PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Month in October.
Started in 2006 as a week-long event, the Pacer Organization has turned the month of October into National Bullying Prevention Month, in the hopes of preventing bullying in school districts and communities.
As part of Bullying Prevention Month, the organization STOMP Out Bullying created Blue Shirt Day. On the first Monday of October, students and staff internationally are encouraged to wear blue shirts to create a sea of blue of across the world. This sea will demonstrate that there are people who stand against bullying.
Now in it's fourth year, Blue Shirt Day is practiced in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Israel, Germany, Portugal and Korea and took place on Monday, October 1st this year. We encouraged our YES! LEADers to show their stand against bullying by wearing blue shirts yesterday and hope that the message was heard across the world that people are willing to stand against bullying.
For more information on Bullying Prevention Month, including resources, handouts and details on getting more involved, visit The PACER Organizations website at http://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm.
Started in 2006 as a week-long event, the Pacer Organization has turned the month of October into National Bullying Prevention Month, in the hopes of preventing bullying in school districts and communities.
As part of Bullying Prevention Month, the organization STOMP Out Bullying created Blue Shirt Day. On the first Monday of October, students and staff internationally are encouraged to wear blue shirts to create a sea of blue of across the world. This sea will demonstrate that there are people who stand against bullying.
Now in it's fourth year, Blue Shirt Day is practiced in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Israel, Germany, Portugal and Korea and took place on Monday, October 1st this year. We encouraged our YES! LEADers to show their stand against bullying by wearing blue shirts yesterday and hope that the message was heard across the world that people are willing to stand against bullying.
For more information on Bullying Prevention Month, including resources, handouts and details on getting more involved, visit The PACER Organizations website at http://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm.
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