Warren County Middle School FCCLA chapter wins National STOP the Violence Project Award

Warren County Middle School (WCMS) was selected to receive the 2019 National 1^st Place Middle School STOP the Violence Award, sponsored by CareerSafe and a program of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).

The FCCLA program, STOP the Violence, is a peer-to-peer outreach initiative that empowers young people to recognize, report, and reduce the potential for youth violence and bullying. STOP the Violence awards recognize outstanding chapters that develop, carry out, and analyze exceptional projects.

As the national 1^st Place Middle School, the WCMS FCCLA chapter will receive a $1,000 award, presented to them at 2019 FCCLA National Leadership Conference, June 30 – July 4 in Anaheim, CA.

During October, WCMS FCCLA chapter participated in National Bullying Prevention Month by holding an FCCLA “Anti-Bullying Week” where they encouraged students to “Team Up Against Bullying”. Activities during the prevention week included an online bullying prevention pledge that all WCMS students were encouraged to sign, daily social media posts on the WCMS Facebook page with bullying statistics to encourage parents to talk to their kids about bullying, Project Connect, where each student in the school shared bullying prevention ideas on strips of paper, which were then linked together in a chain and hung up, and a “Unity Walk” in which signs were placed along students route to and from school and around the track with information about anti-bullying/bullying statistics. On the final day of the week, students were encouraged to “Team Up Against Bullying” and wear their favorite sports apparel. A school assembly was also called the last day of the week, where the J-Line Dance Crew presented an interactive and motivational showcase of high energy dancing and positive messages, including the negative effects of bullying and why it’s everyone’s responsibility to respect themselves and those around them. Overall, the week brought positive awareness to bullying prevention and the effects bullying has on every student.

About FCCLA

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a dynamic and effective national student organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences education. FCCLA has more than 164,000 members and more than 5,300 chapters from 49 state associations, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

About CareerSafe

CareerSafe’s mission is to deliver Safety Education for America’s Future. Our vision is to advance and enhance OSHA’s outreach by providing every young worker with workplace safety training prior to taking their first job. Whether a student faces hazards on the job or dangers online, CareerSafe has multiple courses to teach students best practices to abate and mitigate those risks. CareerSafe has reached over 1.2 million young workers and plan to reach many more. To this end, we are committed to offering affordable, informative and innovative online safety training to reach as many young workers as possible.