Simple Acts of Care and Kindness, Inc.
This year’s World Kindness Youth Conference, organized by SACK, (see below) was held in Corona, California in October. It was attended by 4000 fourth-graders from the city’s elementary schools, plus 400 high school volunteers.
This day long event, first held in 2004, uses seminars and activities to help students learn the many areas of life into which care and kindness can be inserted. Students also visit exhibitors who have come with messages about care and kindness for themselves (staying healthy with good food and physical activity), their family (anger management, safety, emergency procedures at home), their community (programs for the developmentally disabled, helping keep parks clean and green), and their world (recycling, planting trees).
Simple Acts of Care and Kindness, commonly referred to as SACK, was created in 1999 as an outgrowth of the Conferences on Care and Kindness at the Crystal Cathedral. SACK directs its efforts toward youth and schools. www.simpleacts.org
Emphasis is placed on dealing with bullying and undertaking positive actions of kindness and consideration of others. This is accomplished by developing materials and resources for teachers in schools and for students of all ages.
