Bring ReThink Citizens to your community
Via its advocacy and awareness initiatives, ReThink Citizens aims to foster greater awareness and understanding of cyberbullying and promote community-led efforts to tackle cyberbullying and set today’s students up to be responsible digital citizens.
Via our “chapters” effort, we provide schools and other educational institutions with a “starter pack” to launch an anti-hate and digital literacy chapter or club at their institution, through which students themselves can spearhead institution-specific anti-hate campaigns, e.g., raising funding for anti-hate organizations that the institution supports. The starter pack contains guidance and direction as to how students and educators can launch and successfully grow a chapter. Note that the chapters operate entirely independently of ReThink Citizens; ReThink Citizens will offer (at most) limited support. The goal is to empower individual communities to take on this important issue in their local contexts.
Via our anti-hate awareness campaigns, educational events, and/or digital educational content (whether delivered solely by ReThink Citizens or in conjunction with partners), we deliver key facts and information about cyberbullying and digital literacy topics to three primary audiences: youth, parents, and educators. Campaigns or events may focus specifically on certain topics, e.g., cyberbullying and mental health – how does online harassment affect youth mental health? Campaigns or events may feature the latest statistics, advice/tips for the aforementioned audiences, and/or resources the aforementioned audiences can leverage. Campaigns will be created and led by ReThink Citizens (and potentially one or more partners) and executed in a number of contexts, whether in-person, at educational institutions, virtually, on a web conferencing platforms, or digitally, on social media/similar mediums. In doing this awareness work, ReThink Citizens hopes to shine a light on important anti-cyberbullying and digital literacy information that is not well-known in the public – and ultimately motivate listeners/viewers to engage with and take action on this issue.
