National Hazing Awareness Week (NHAW) 2025

Mental Health and Hazing: Film Addendum

This resource is designed to highlight the impact of hazing on mental health and prompt reflection on the emotional and psychological toll of hazing experiences shared in the film. It encourages viewers to consider how hazing can affect well-being and explore opportunities for empathy, support, and intervention.

This guide includes:

• An overview of how hazing can impact mental health and wellness 
• Timestamps of scenes and stories with reflection questions about emotional responses, mental health consequences, and opportunities for support

Power Dynamics and Hazing: Film Addendum

This resource is designed to help viewers examine the role of power in hazing, how it is used, misused, and reinforced within group dynamics. It encourages critical reflection on the ways power operates in the scenes and stories shared, and how it can shape individuals’ choices, silence dissent, and perpetuate harm.

This guide includes:

• An overview of power dynamics in the context of hazing
• Timestamps of scenes and stories with reflection questions about power, coercion, group pressure, and resistance.

Break the Cycle: Hazing Prevention Bingo

Hazing Case Roleplaying Game

Hazing Prevention Tabling Activities: 10 Signs Edition

Behind Closed Doors: Scenarios for Residence Life Training

Behind Closed Doors (BCD) is a role-playing training exercise used in Residence Life (ResLife) where Resident Assistants (RAs) practice responding to real-life campus scenarios, such as roommate conflicts or mental health crises, in a controlled setting.

This resource expands on that model by giving ResLife staff the opportunity to simulate interactions with residents who may have experienced hazing and to practice appropriate response strategies.

Bulletin Board: Spot the Signs

Many Resident Assistants use bulletin boards as a way to educate and engage their residents. This interactive bulletin board can help students reflect on the signs of healthy and unhealthy group behaviors they may have experienced or could experience in organizations, teams, or clubs.

StopHazing’s mission is to promote safe and inclusive school, campus, and organizational environments through research, resource sharing, and the development of data-driven strategies for hazing prevention and the promotion of positive and inclusive group climates.

Hazing is any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them, regardless of a person’s willingness to participate.

I pledge to: 

• Never participate in or condone hazing in any form. 
• Stand up to hazing and take action if I see or suspect hazing. 
• Support and protect those who come forward to report hazing. 
• Uphold the dignity and respect of every member in my organization and campus community.
• Lead by example as a student, leader, and community member by promoting healthy group dynamics and creating safe, inclusive environments for all. 

By signing this pledge, I commit to fostering a culture of belonging, safety, and accountability, and to advocating for a community free from hazing.