Prom Promise

Create an activity for students to make a “Prom promise” by involving them in committing to responsible behavior before, during and after your high school prom.

Prom Promise is a great way to create a sense of common purpose toward a safe prom night for your school.

Creating some positive peer pressure and a community dedicated to making safe and healthy decisions is an important strategy to prevent prom night tragedies or regrets.

To Complete the Activity: 

There are plenty of ways to make a prom promise an integral part of the build up to your prom. 

Here are a few:

• Involve parents in the student’s promise.  Email parents with tips on how to support their teens safe behavior.
• Use seamless paper in your school or prom colors to cover a wall and have students sign the prom promise on the wall.
• Students write a personal message about why they’re signing or remembering someone they knew who was affected by a substance-related accident.  Urge siblings and close friends to include promises to one another.
• Use red flat paper to cut out hearts or stars and have students sign the prom promise on them. Suspend the hearts from the ceiling in your hallway.
• Post notes from elementary students wishing teens a safe and happy prom.
• Provide a “selfie booth” and take photos of students making their promise. Friends can take photos together to demonstrate their promise to one another.
• Enter the names of students who sign the prom promise into a drawing for prizes such as discounted prom tickets, restaurant gift certificates, limo coupons or fun promotional items.
• Have a police officer, attorney, judge or victim, come in to talk to students about the consequences of irresponsible decisions on prom night.
• Hand out key tags to students who sign the prom promise. If students use the key tags it will become a visible reminder to all of the students who are pledged to making good decisions too.