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Official Unity Day T-shirt

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.

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Unity Day Posters

August 28, 2025

Order Unity Day Posters to display in schools, at a business, or in your community.

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Save the date for Unity Day

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.

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Submit your nomination for the Unity Awards today!

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

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Join the Students with Solutions Challenge!

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

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Take action to address acne-based bullying

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]


New! Build CommUNITY Kit

August 31, 2023

The new Build COMMUNITY Kit ($30) is designed to encourage coming together for a common goal: to make stronger connections among each other to help prevent bullying and create a healthier environment for all. The kits contain a guide, poster, decals, action card, sticky notes, and handouts for at least 30 participants, with 2 design options to choose from. The content is appropriate for kids, teens, and adults.


Beyond Sticks & Stones: How to Help Your Child Address Bullying

April 26, 2023

New in 2023! This 70-page comprehensive guide offers information and practical tools students, parents and other adults need to take action. Single copies are $10.

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Cyberbullying: What You Need to Know

March 8, 2023

What is important to know about how to address and prevent cyberbullying? This three-version infographic series with audience relevant content for elementary school students, middle and high school students and adults answers that question. The format is designed to share on social media, print for the classroom, and use as an friendly to read resource.

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Cyberbullying Prevention 101 Quick Guides

January 6, 2023

The three-version series with audience relevant content for elementary school students, middle and high school students and adults outlines how cyberbullying is defined, along with information on how to prevent and address the behavior.

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