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Youth Crime Watch (YCW) of Miami-Dade County “Stop the Violence” Blue Ribbon Week Campaign
Week of April 20
School Activities
- Decorate the school with blue ribbons in spirit of youth crime watch (YCW official color is blue.).
- Create “YCW Stop the Violence posters” on various youth crime prevention topics and post them up at several locations throughout the school.
- Coordinate YCW Stop the Violence assemblies on “Stop The Violence Day” (April 20).
- Contact YCW School Coordinators to conduct presentations on anti-bullying, reporting crimes, and other youth crime prevention topics.
- Conduct a “YCW Stop the Violence Day” for parents with skits, songs and other student performances.
- Coordinate a “YCW Safety Day” event in the school by inviting numerous crime prevention educators, law enforcement officers, and elected officials to speak to students on youth crime prevention topics.
- Develop anti-violence slogans and post them up as posters in designated areas throughout the school.
- Launch your program with the release of blue balloons – as many as possible.
- Announce a “YCW Safety Tip of the Day” each day during the morning announcements.
- Coordinate an anti-violence rally.
- Coordinate a “YCW Student Speak-Out” where students can voice out their crime prevention action plans.
- Sponsor a contest (essay, poster, poem, theme song, etc.) for YCW “Stop the Violence” Blue Ribbon Week.
- Coordinate a “YCW Blue Ribbon Week” Door Contest by having students decorate their classroom doors with crime prevention messages, posters, etc.
- Sponsor a YCW Blue Day or YCW Blue Rally where everyone is encouraged to wear blue – blue socks, blue hats, blue shirts, etc. Give an award to the class with covered in the most blue.
