On Friday, April 7th, the campaign's Unite In Action Day, we are encouraging all those recognizing the week to hold in-school conferences on preventing youth violence. We strongly recommend that schools open this conference up to members of the community who are concerned about youth violence. A key mission of this campaign is to bring communities together to make their schools and neighborhoods safer. A conference can serve as a way to engage all sectors of the community to focus on this issue.

The conference agenda should include workshops on various strategies for prevention, an awards ceremony to recognize the efforts of local people who are effectively working to reduce youth violence, and the launch of your local community roundtable. Here are some tips on putting this event together...

• Celebration Resources
• Workshops
• Awards Ceremony
• Roundtables