National Safe Schools Week Posters

For Safe Schools Week 2007, we challenged schools and community groups all over the country to get creative in promoting school safety. At Rancho Cucamonga High School in California, students held a SPEAK UP poster contest. Many students submitted designs. We have posted the top six posters below. Congratulations to all who entered!

Safe Schools Week Planning Guide

The Safe Schools Week Events and Activities Planning Guide has a number of tools to help you get started, including a “Know the Facts” section filled with national statistics on gun violence, as well as “Events and Activities” sections suggesting activities for youth and for adults. The guide also includes strategies for planning events, getting media attention, and more.
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What is National Safe Schools Week?

National Safe Schools Week, held every fall, is dedicated to helping students, teachers, parents and administrators raise awareness of the urgent need to keep our schools free from violence.  More than a million students across America take a weapon to school each month, and over 1.3 million students are injured or threatened with a weapon at school each year (Source: US CDC).

Throughout the week, schools and communities across America focus their attention on the importance of empowering youth to prevent violence in the places where they learn and hang out. With the support of several organizations, including national leaders in the fields of education, violence prevention, and school safety, National Safe Schools Week events bring together key members of our schools and communities concerned about protecting youth.

National Safe Schools Week is a great time to spread the word about effective violence prevention programs in your community. 

One such program is SPEAK UP, a program of PAX / Real Solutions to Gun Violence, which features 1-866-SPEAK-UP, the first-and-only national, 24-hour hotline for students to anonymously report weapon threats.  In addition, SPEAK UP provides students with the tools and information they need to reduce weapon violence in the their schools.  To find materials that help you spread the word during National Safe Schools Week, visit the Outreach and Materials sections of this Web site.

Check out the links on the sidebar for National Safe Schools Week events and activities suggestions, downloadable violence prevention mini-curricula, ideas for getting media coverage, and much more! PAX would be happy to provide you with free Safe Schools Week materials for your event or activites. Simply email speakup@paxusa.org to request materials.