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SpankOut Day Tool Kit

Twelve Ways to Celebrate SpankOut Day in Your Community
(You can do this!)

1. Host a SpankOut Day special event. Take a look at what organizations did in 2007.
2. Check out our parenting education and training material. Distribute them to parents and organizations. Use them in your SpankOut events. The material is copyright free but authors request that they be given appropriate recognition.
3. Check out our SpankOut Day USA support material catalog - posters, tee shirts, parenting brochures, etc.
4. Read our suggestions for working with the media, and send them an event announcement if you are planning one.
5. Submit a public service announcement or press release to local media. Just look up your community's newspaper, radio or television addresses in the phone book or on the internet; fill in the blanks on our sample materials; and mail or e-mail them.
6. Submit a newsletter article to your civic group, school or church.
7. Write to legislators about banning corporal punishment in schools. See our sample letters to state and federal representatives.
8. Have your mayor, city council or governor sign a proclamation announcing SpankOut Day in your city or state. Fill in the blanks on our proclamation request letter and send them a sample proclamation.
9. Get your town council to adopt a resolution calling for a Spank-Free town.
10. Here are some ideas for activities in faith communities. Here is what clergy say about corporal punishment of children.
11. Talk to your relatives, friends, neighbors and co-workers about using positive, non-violent ways to teach and discipline children. Here's how to talk to folks about not spanking.
12. Donate to EPOCH USA (End Physical Punishment of Children) to support SpankOut Day and other efforts to promote raising good kids without hitting.