Red Ribbon Week (RRW) takes place every year in October to highlight living a drug-free lifestyle and staying healthy.
The Red Ribbon symbolizes that you are committed to living a drug-free life.
At PVHS, BTC and ASB set up many fun games, activities and rallies for us to help encourage students to fight for having a healthy lifestyle, and promote a drug-free lifestyle.
Red Ribbon Week helps people stand up against drug use and keeps students safe as much as they can.
The importance of RRW follows many different reasons but some of them are to spread awareness of drug use, and to educate others on the dangers and how it impacts our society.
Overall there are many reasons on why RRW is so important to our community. BTC member Brynne Rhodes said that RRW is very important to our school for a variety of reasons.
“RRW is important to our school because it helps inform students on difficult and dangerous topics,” she said.
BTC has a massive impact on our school and “helps to make sure students feel more safe and aware on and off campus.
“The whole [BTC] class and team makes a big difference to our school and helps everyone feel welcome and safe.”
As a community, this week is taken very seriously for all sorts of reasons. Students commit to living a healthy, drug-free life and some people who have lost loved ones to drugs and want to honor them and various other reasons.
Some history around RRW is that back in 1988, the first National RRW had become organized by the National Family Partnership (NFP).
Each year across the world over 80 million young adults and people celebrate RRW, and show their commitment to living a healthy lifestyle.
RRW is a great way to show the freshmen a deeper dive into it other than what they have seen in middle school, and to show them a different experience and different understanding on why this week is so important.