Community Awareness Campaigns
Building Upon RESPECT At Your School
RESPECT has worked with a variety of schools and organizations to build upon student participation in RESPECT programs. Messages about building “RESPECT”, whether those be how to help friends, share messages to prevent dating violence or share helpful resources to stop bullying at school, are often among those benefiting from reinforcement and additional conversations among students. A RESPECT program is an excellent way to supplement, kick off or top off a system level effort to involve students in thinking more about how to make relationships healthier and safer within their own community. Consider how you can increase the impact of a RESPECT educational theatre program within your school, school district or greater community!
How Does it Work?
- Decide on goal for students:
- For Example: Students will define what RESPECT looks like in their school.
- Decide on objectives for students such as:
- All students will participate in a RESPECT educational theatre program.
- All students will be offered an opportunity to participate in a contest to share their vision/definition of RESPECT via a poem or piece of art/picture or short story with specific guidelines and a deadline.
- All students will receive a certificate of participation.
- A committee of interested volunteers will judge student entries.
- The top three entries will be awarded gift cards (obtained from community partners).
- Top three winners will be acknowledged at school board meeting.
- Certain number of entries will be read/on display publicly as possible.
RESPECT has facilitated students designing community billboards, public service announcements and educational articles and handouts as a result of participating in RESPECT centered community campaigns. Students have taken photographs, developed word games, created work with various art forms to share with their communities through a wide variety of media. Poems, short stories, statements of affirmations have illustrated messages students want to share with others. Students have earned a variety of certificates, gift cards, presentations by mayors, superintendents and other dignitaries for their work. Events can be as small or as large as desired.