Oct. 22, 2025 is Unity Day! Wear Orange.
Join us in wearing orange on Oct. 22, 2025 for Unity Day!
Unity Day, started by PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center in October 2011, is the signature event of National Bullying Prevention Month. This is a day when we can come together to send a visible message of building
commUNITY through kindness, acceptance, and inclusion.
Wear Orange: October 22, 2025
The call to action is simple: wear and share the color orange. This vibrant statement becomes a conversation starter, showing support for students who have been bullied and for bullying prevention.
Bullying prevention and awareness facts
• We must recognize that bullying has gone on too long and too many have suffered as a result
• More than one out of every five students will be bullied this year; chances are this is happening to someone you
know and care about
• Bullying is a community-wide issue that we can’t continue to ignore or think of as a harmless rite of passage
• Bullying isn’t about resolving conflict; bullying is about control
• Every child has the right to feel safe and supported
• Bullying directly affects a student’s ability to learn. Students who are bullied often do not want to go to school. They often have difficulty concentrating, show a decline in grades, and suffer from low self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth.
• Students who are bullied report more physical symptoms, such as headaches or stomachaches, and mental health
issues, such as depression and anxiety, than other students
• Bullying affects witnesses as well as targets. Witnesses often report feeling unsafe, helpless, and afraid that they will be the next target.
• Students who bully are also negatively affected, showing higher rates of physical and emotional health issues
• Bullying is not only devastating while it’s happening—research shows that the negative effects last a lifetime
• Silence is no longer an acceptable response to bullying. Adults, students, and educators can no longer look away
when they see bullying. Ignoring it won’t work. Everyone needs to be empowered with options to respond.
• Bystanders can be powerful allies
• Every person’s actions matter and we all have a role to play. Create a world without bullying by uniting for kindness,
acceptance and inclusion.