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Students Take Action for Safer Schools

Be Empowered to Make a Difference!

Students like you are preventing violence, looking out for one another, and creating safer, kinder, and healthier school communities. Youth are our essential partners in leading the culture change and building a movement. Let’s make an impact together!

Be Empowered to Make a Difference!

Students like you are preventing violence, looking out for one another, and creating safer, kinder, and healthier school communities. Youth are our essential partners in leading the culture change. Let’s make an impact together!

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What Students Say About Why They're Taking Action

One Thing You Can Do Right Now

Be a Social Advocate! Connect with us and use your social media channels as a platform. Share the actions you’re taking and see what other youth across the country are doing. Together, your voices and activities are making a difference and helping to create change!

Follow us and share our posts to help raise awareness! When you post, use the hashtag #SandyHookPromise.

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Share with 4,500+ student-led clubs across the country! When you post, tag @nationalsave #SAVEPromiseClub.

5 Actions That Take Only 5 Minutes Each

  • Make The Promise. Stand in solidarity with Sandy Hook Promise to protect children from gun violence. Promise to do all you can to help create safer schools, homes, and communities.
  • Check Out Our Blog for student resources, ideas, quizzes, and news. And you can read guest blogs by high school students and members of our National Youth Advisory Board.
  • Watch and Share Our Award-Winning Video. Our “Evan” Public Service Announcement (PSA) raises awareness of the warning signs that can lead to school shootings, youth violence, and other harmful acts. Gun violence is preventable when you know the signs.
Now’s the Time for Bystanders to Become Upstanders.

Youth Voices Have Power. Together, We Can Create Real Change.

Want to Get More Involved?

Participate in a call-to-action campaign, use your voice for change with our advocacy kits, or start a Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Promise Club.

Unite in Action

Join youth and teens from across America to take a stand against violence. National Youth Violence Prevention Week is April 24-28, 2023. Get your action kit today!

Voices for Change Youth Kits

Be a Youth Advocate

Sandy Hook Promise’s Voices for Change advocacy series for young people is rooted in our commitment to co-creating school safety policies with the input of students like you! Every action kit in the series is focused on a specific violence prevention topic to help you spread awareness in your community.

Join or Start a Club

Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Promise Club is led by students for students. Learn from each other to create an inclusive school culture. Be empowered to engage your peers in meaningful violence prevention efforts and provide service to your community. You can take charge of keeping your friends, schools, and communities safe!

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Watch Our How To Video Series for Students

Get tips and advice on How to Stop Bullying and How to Deal with Suicidal Thoughts and Help Stop Suicide. Led by experts at Sandy Hook Promise. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos.

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Get the Voices for Change Action Kits. We’re also working on more youth-led initiatives to prevent gun violence, promote advocacy actions, raise awareness, and educate others about violence prevention. You’ll be the first to know when we’re ready to launch!

Fill out the form then check your email (including the junk folder, just in case) for links to the kits and more information.
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About Sandy Hook Promise

Our mission is to educate and empower youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes, and communities.

Sandy Hook Promise is founded and led by several family members whose loved ones were killed in the tragic mass shooting on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Our intent is to honor all victims of gun violence by turning our tragedy into a moment of transformation.

Our life-saving “Know the Signs” programs teach the warning signs of someone who may be in crisis, socially isolated, or at-risk of hurting themselves or others and how to get help.

By empowering youth, we can take meaningful actions to prevent gun violence and  create safer schools. Millions of students in schools across America have been trained to “know the signs.”

5 Actions That Take Only 5 Minutes Each

  • Be an Upstander! Learn and share the 10 Warning Signs of someone at risk of hurting themselves or others. Then pledge to “say something” to a trusted adult to get help.
  • Be a Promise Maker! Stand in solidarity with Sandy Hook Promise to protect children from gun violence. Make the Promise to do all you can to help create safer schools, homes, and communities.
  • Be Resourceful! Check out our Blog for student resources, ideas, quizzes, and news. And you can read guest blogs by high school students and members of our National Youth Advisory Board.
  • Be XXX! Visit our Digital Learning Center to get activities and access trainings for our Start With Hello and Say Something programs for grades K-12.