Dear
Educators and Other Professionals:
The
Delaware County Suicide Prevention and Awareness Task Force is excited to
announce the 6th Annual “Make A Difference!” Art with a Message
Contest. We are happy to report that last year we received over 75 submissions!
The Task Force’s purpose is to promote
understanding that suicide is a preventable community health problem in
our county. The
goal of this contest is to encourage emotional well-being by promoting
the concepts of communication, hope, community and friendship, in an effort to
prevent suicide. All middle and high
school students are invited to submit original art work.
We
are distributing the contest information now to make it easier for you to fit
it into your busy school schedules over the next few months. The submission
deadline is Friday, January 25, 2013, and entries can be submitted at any
time between now and the deadline. You will find an information sheet with
guidelines enclosed with this letter.
Please read and follow the guidelines carefully.
Please
distribute the enclosed information packet to any staff who may be interested
in having their students participate. We are hoping for 100% school
participation. We look forward to receiving your school’s entries. For more information about suicide prevention
information and upcoming events, please visit our website, www.delcosuicideprevention.org or refer to the enclosed brochure.
We
believe this project will help to teach our youth that talking about feelings
and reaching out for help when feeling down is important for every youth in Delaware County
Best
Regards,
The
Delaware County
2013 Art with a Message Contest
Instructions
Theme:
“Make A Difference!”
Suicide
Prevention through Communication and Emotional Well-Being
We
invite all teachers, counselors, nurses, school faculty and other professionals
to inspire middle and high school students to create an original poster for the
6th Annual “Make A Difference!” Art with a Message Contest. This is
a county-wide effort to encourage youth to value emotional health,
communication and community and to express through art what they think and
feel. WINNERS will receive awards, public recognition, and winning artwork will
be used as promotional material for Task Force events/publications. Winning artwork may also be used as an
inspiration for the t-shirt design. Please
share this opportunity with your students. Have fun, and enjoy!
Poster
Messages and Themes
Judges
will look for positive, clear messages, creativity, uniqueness and artistic
ability. To get started, suggest that students draw ideas about the following
themes:
v
Hope
v
Peace
v
Love
v
Not
keeping secrets
v
Life
is for Living
v
Support
v
Friendship
v
Connections
v
Communication
v
Being
a Role Model
v
Healthy
Ways to Deal with Stress
v Alternatives
Remind
your students that the winning artwork will represent the Delaware County
Suicide Prevention and Awareness Task Force, so the posters need to be positive
themes—no violent or gory posters will be selected.
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The Prizes:
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POSTER GUIDELINES
v NO NAMES DIRECTLY ON POSTERS. All identifying information—name,
address, phone, grade, teacher and school—MUST be printed on the ID label
(enclosed) and taped to the back of the poster. Please use clear tape only;
glue may seep through the posters. Copier-ready ID Label page is included with
this packet.
v Posters must be drawn on WHITE, 8.5” x
11” paper, landscape orientation (11” side horizontal). Any other size
artwork will be immediately disqualified.
v Posters must be drawn with markers or
crayons using only 2 different colors.
Be sure to press down hard so the colors stand out. NO painted or
computer-generated posters will be accepted.
v Posters should reflect the students’
original messages—ideas copied from published posters or past contests will be
immediately disqualified.
v Posters should be creative and contain
simple, clear messages.
v Violent scenes, brand names and
copyrighted images (i.e. characters from cartoons or TV) will be disqualified.
v Posters with misspellings will be
immediately disqualified.
Please help your students spell their messages correctly.
v Only one (1) entry per student may be
submitted.
v Please submit posters in an organized
fashion and make sure they are clearly labeled.
DEADLINE: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 4:00
p.m.
Winners will be notified by Friday, March
8, 2013
Posters
may be submitted at any time from now until the deadline, and may be mailed or
delivered to:
DCSPATF
ATTN: POSTER CONTEST
Please
feel free to email info@delcosuicideprevention.org
with any questions, or contact one of the following Task Force Members:
Nikole Heilmann: 484-802-1184
Ellen
Chung: 610-891-7048
Julie
Brown: 215-504-3919
Joe
Mack: 484-454-8802
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