National Hazing Awareness Week (NHAW) 2024
Featured Webinars & Events:
WEBINAR: Navigating College Hazing: What do parents and families need to know before their students go to school?
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT | Via Zoom
Featured Speakers:
- Jolayne Houtz, Co-Founder of HazingInfo
- Lisa Stephen, PhD., ACC, NBC-HWC
- Elizabeth Allan, PhD, Principal of StopHazing
This webinar will provide participants with actionable practices and tools to get curious, talk about hazing, recognize the signs of it, and utilize resources to better understand the culture of hazing at colleges and universities across the country.
For who: Parents, families, and loved ones of incoming and current college students
HAZING Film Viewing
September 23-29, 2024 | Online viewing access
StopHazing is proud to partner with the Media Education Foundation and filmmaker, Byron Hurt to provide free access to view the award-winning film, HAZING. Participants may follow the link to receive a complimentary pass to view the film between September 23 – September 29, 2024.
WEBINAR: Hazing Incident Transparency at Colleges and Universities: New resources and tools to support campus professionals
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 11am PDT / 2pm EDT | Via Zoom
Featured Speakers:
- Jolayne Houtz, Co-Founder of HazingInfo
- Elizabeth Allan, PhD, Principal of StopHazing
- William & Mary Campus Professionals
This webinar will provide campus professionals and student leaders with resources and tools to increase transparency about hazing on campus. Participants will receive access to new resources and information on how to utilize HazingInfo.org to support their work.
Note: the proposed federal legislation, the Stop Campus Hazing Act, will require all institutions to develop a transparency report!
For who: Campus leaders and professionals, students
HAZING Film Live Q&A With Byron Hurt
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT | Via Zoom
During National Hazing Awareness Week (NHAW), StopHazing will host a live Q&A with HAZING filmmaker Byron Hurt.
This event is for students, staff, parents, and anyone who would like to learn more about the film.
Featured Speaker:
NEW Resources for Download
Developing Hazing Incident Transparency Reports Resource: Flowchart
Developed in partnership with HazingInfo, this infographic is designed to help you interpret campus hazing incident reports. Many institutions are required by law to publicly post these types of reports, however, reports are not all created equally. Use this flowchart to reflect on the report and draw conclusions.
Student Action Guide
Geared towards college student leaders who are working to prevent hazing on their campus, this guide will define hazing prevention, why hazing prevention is important for their community and provide strategies for engaging their community, students and leaders alike, in preventing hazing.
Tabling Activities: 10 Signs Edition
Let’s plan fun tabling events with the 10 Signs of Healthy & Unhealthy Groups! Use this resource to plan a tabling event that is engaging, fun, reflective, and promotes building healthy groups!
Bystander Intervention Resource
Built to accompany the HAZING Viewing Guide developed by StopHazing and the filmmaker Byron Hurt’s production company, God Bless the Child, this resource will introduce participants to the concept of bystander intervention, provide connections of bystander intervention with hazing, and provide thought provoking discussion topics based upon the film HAZING.
Social Media Campaign Graphics
Use these ready-to-use social media graphics to post on your own channels and accounts to raise awareness about hazing and its prevention.
We also have a 1-pager with guidance on how to post these.
Advocate – Stop Campus Hazing Act
The Stop Campus Hazing Act is federal, bipartisan and bicameral legislation to prevent hazing and increase transparency and accountability.
Advocates and families impacted by hazing and tragedy are in DC this NHAW to garner support from representatives for the bill.
How Can You Support the Bill? Contact Your Representatives & Post on Social.
Submit and share this email advocacy form to send an email to your legislators urging them to Vote Yes on the bill. Be sure to also share this with your groups, friends, peers, and networks. This Social Media Kit is ready to use with captions and graphics!
Thinking Beyond NHAW:
Hazing Prevention Academy (HPA)
October 3rd, 2024 | 1:00-4:00pm ET
Register now for the HPA, a training for campus professionals to level-up institutional commitment to hazing prevention.
StandUp to Hazing
The self-guided, 20-minute course educates about the realities of hazing and how to recognize, intervene, report, and prevent it by developing leadership skills and building healthy, safe, and inclusive campus environments and groups.
Learn more about this research-based resource and how to deliver it to your campus or organizations here:
We look forward to engaging with you this month and beyond – as we know hazing prevention isn’t limited to just one week or month of the year. Be sure to tag us on social media and let us know what you have planned for National Hazing Awareness Week (NHAW)!
-The StopHazing Team
P.S. September is National Campus Safety Awareness Month (NCSAM). You can register for Clery Center’s free events and resources during the month here. Registration is required. View the full agenda and register at www.clerycenter.org/ncsam-2024
