August 28, 2025
Show your support for Unity Day and year-round by purchasing the official orange t-shirt. Unity Day is celebrated during National Bullying Prevention Month to send a visible message of kindness, acceptance, and inclusion to prevent bullying.
August 28, 2025
August 28, 2025
Mark your calendars for Unity Day on Wednesday, October 22, 2025! October is National Bullying Prevention Month, a time to come together to prevent childhood bullying and promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. On Unity Day, we’ll wear and share the color orange to send a powerful and united message: We are committed to creating a kinder, more accepting, and more inclusive world. Join us this October to speak up about bullying prevention.
Learn how you can get involved!
May 15, 2025
Amaya S. of Pettit Park Elementary (Illinois), won the artwork category for her warmly colorful poster entitled “Cool to Be Kind.”
Amaya’s pink, yellow, and orange poster was submitted by counselor Ashlee Key, who praised not only Amaya’s contribution but the efforts of all the students to contribute their ideas about speaking up and bullying prevention. The positivity of Amaya’s poster sends the message that there is real hope when people treat each other with kindness. Congratulations!
February 12, 2025
PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center Unity Awards, first held in 2015, recognize individuals and groups who are helping to prevent bullying and create a kinder, more accepting, and inclusive world. Examples of bullying prevention efforts may include empowering others to take positive action, advocating for those who need support, or sharing acts of kindness that cause a ripple effect in a community. Nominate an individual or group who is making a difference!
Nominations closed March 31, 2025
January 15, 2025
K-12 students are invited to join PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center Students with Solutions Challenge. The SWS Challenge is a creative way for adults to engage youth in bullying prevention conversations while they learn how to speak up for themselves and their peers. To participate, students can share creative videos, artwork, and posters to be featured on NBPC websites with a chance to win some awesome prizes!
Submissions closed March 31, 2025
May 13, 2024
PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center is pleased to partner with Liquid Oxygen Skincare’s campaign to increase awareness of and address acne-based bullying. We are looking for youth (ages 14-21) like Larkin, pictured here and featured in this video to share their story about acne and bullying to be a part of the solution to help others! Want to learn more? Email [email protected]
