The H.O.P.E. Crew met today with their focus being on Red Ribbon and Not My Kid Week. Alexa Muniz helped jumpstart our session by preparing a Power Point presentation which included PSA videos on internet safety, bullying, and texting while driving (graphic – please click on the link at your own discretion). This segued us into a discussion about each of these topics which gave us the opportunity to look at our own past actions and think about our responsibility to ourselves, to others, and to our community.
We concluded our meeting by deciding to put forth three challenges this week to the TPA community at large. Wednesday through Friday, students and faculty will be given the opportunity to take on one, two, or three challenges to help increase our personal awareness as well as the affect that our behavior has on our own selves as well as others.
The challenges are as follows:
Wednesday, October 26: No Facebook for a day –
24 hours free and clear of posting, reading, and checking our own
page or that of others’.
Thursday, October 27: Talk to/reach out to someone at TPA that
you have never spoken to before. Learn their name and a little bit
about them.
Friday, October 28: Use positive words (let go of negative talk) and
refrain from using profanity (for a full 24 hours).
H.O.P.E. Crew members will pass out information about the challenges
on Tuesday, October 25. Students and faculty will have the opportunity
to sign up and participate in one, two, or all three of the challenges on
Wednesday morning outside the Zelman Center. While we would like
everyone who participates to do this for the value of simply doing it to
better themselves and the community at large, those who meet their
challenge goals, will be recognized on Monday, October 31.
