Sandy Hook Promise Programs

Programs: Call to Action – Start With Hello Week, February 6 – 10!

Sandy Hook Promise’s Start With Hello Week is right around the corner. To date, over 1,250 schools and youth organizations across the country have signed up to bring Start With Hello to their classrooms or communities the week of February 6 – 10.

Together these schools and youth organizations will raise collective awareness and teach young people how to reduce social isolation, look out for one another and build more connected and inclusive classrooms, schools and communities.

Please take action by bringing Start With Hello Week to a school or youth organization in your community today. Click here for a sample message to send to schools and youth organizations in your community and a sample letter to newspaper editors.

If you work at a school or with a youth group, you can also click here and sign up to have your school or group join Start With Hello Week this February 6 – 10.

Building Awareness: Your Hopes for 2017!

We want to hear from you. How do you plan to take action as a Promise Leader this year? What are your hopes for your community? What would you like to see decision-makers do this year to help prevent gun violence before it’s too late?

Please share your hopes with us by clicking here to take the survey.

Advocacy: Promise Leader Success Story!

Sarah is a young, bright and determined Promise Leader from New York. At 13 years old, Sarah is having her bat mitzvah this month, and as one of the ways that she will mark this important milestone, Sarah decided to lead a call to action to advance gun violence prevention policy with Sandy Hook Promise.

Sarah will set up a table at her bat mitzvah reception that allows her guests to learn more about Sandy Hook Promise and take personal action to support Sandy Hook Promise's policy agenda. She has preprinted postcards for her family and friends to sign and send a message to their statehouse in support of pending gun violence restraining order legislation. To raise awareness about gun violence at the national level, Sarah has provided template letters for her loved ones to write to the president-elect, the Senate and the House to urge progress and accountability on gun violence in this new year. She is also encouraging everyone to learn more about Sandy Hook Promise and bring our prevention programs to their communities.

We could not be more grateful to Sarah for her action and leadership. She is an inspiration to us all, and we congratulate her on her bat mitzvah this month!

Save the Date!

• Promise Leader Conference Call:
  • Wednesday, January 11 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT/6 p.m. MT/5 p.m. PT. Find out how you can bring Sandy Hook Promise programs – including Start With Hello Week – to a school or youth organization in your community. Click here to RSVP for tonight's call.
  
  
  • Wednesday, March 1 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT/6 p.m. MT/5 p.m. PT. Click here to RSVP. Our topic will be determined by the results of the Promise Leader survey – stay tuned!

• Start With Hello Week:
  • February 6 – 10: www.sandyhookpromise.org/startwithhelloweek

Promise Leader Resources

For more information about how you can take action as a Promise Leader:

• Join the Promise Leader private Facebook page
• Email us at promiseleader@sandyhookpromise.org
• Share your experiences and successes via the Promise Leader reporting form