Life-saving violence prevention and crisis intervention.
Life-saving violence prevention and crisis intervention.
Maintaining the safety of your students and school community depends on timely information. Students are often the first to be aware of a safety threat, bullying victimization, or a classmate at risk of self-harm or suicide. The Say Something Anonymous Reporting System (Say Something ARS) allows students in grades 4-12 to share a concern, privately and safely, allowing for intervention and assistance before a crisis occurs. When no warning sign goes unnoticed and immediate action is taken, a student in crisis can receive the assistance they need.
The Say Something ARS is the only anonymous reporting system that offers a complete school safety solution:
The Say Something Anonymous Reporting System (ARS) builds a culture of Upstanders by teaching warning signs of violence and self-harm, and a simple 3 step reporting model:
Our five-stage Program Cycle helps guide your Say Something ARS implementation. Designed to be very flexible, the Program Cycle can be utilized by school districts of different sizes, resources, interests, and class schedules. This planning tool will help you identify the program content and implementation strategies that best fit your school or district goals.
Prepare for launch with training on warning signs, tip management, and incident response for adults in the school community, the administrative team, local law enforcement and emergency services teams. Inform parents and caregivers.
Use our planning documents and professional development resources to prepare to launch the Say Something student program. Easily schedule lesson delivery and prepare teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, and other school team members to implement the curriculum.
Kick off the Say Something program with the foundational multi-media student training. An engaging and interactive presentation introduces students to key program concepts and sets the stage for integrating the curriculum into classrooms.
As a Say Something ARS district, your students will also have access to the Say Something ARS reporting app.
Deliver the flexible and easy to implement Say Something ARS classroom curriculum during homeroom, morning meeting, or another time of day that meets instructional goals.
Celebrate Upstanders and honor Trusted Adults during national Say Something Week in March, or another week that fits your schedule.
Decide how you may want to expand and improve your Say Something ARS implementation next year. For example:
The Say Something Anonymous Reporting System is used in more than 350 school districts, regional agencies, private school campuses and charter networks – along with statewide availability in North Carolina and Pennsylvania – and counting!
Budget concerns shouldn’t be a barrier to building a safe and supportive school climate where all students can thrive. At Sandy Hook Promise, it’s central to our mission. Our generous donors help to subsidize implementations of the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System in school districts nationwide.
Explore samples from the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System
A brief demo of how students can report a concern using the app.
An excerpt from the elementary student interactive training module (Stage 2)
A sample lesson plan from the student curriculum (Stage 3)
A sample activity from the student curriculum (Stage 3)
To learn more about bringing the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System to your school district, private school or charter network, please submit the form below.
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