Teens for Healthy Youth Promote Random Acts of Kindness in Their Schools 2026

Teens for Healthy Youth in Hilton Head and Bluffton area middle and high schools engaged their peers in Random Acts of Kindness Month. At Bluffton High School, Teens for Healthy Youth encouraged their peers, parents, and teachers/staff to purchase Kindness Cupid Candy Grams to send a positive message to friends, family, and colleagues during Random Acts of Kindness Month. They also displayed posters around the school from the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. They also developed a Kindness Pledge from the template at Random Acts of Kindness.org, expressing that all students at Bluffton High would work together to make Kindness the Norm at Bluffton High all year long. THY made a video for the morning student news, prompting students to sign the pledge to have a dress down day, in which students could wear pink, purple, and red with jeans.  All students signed the pledge in their first block class. Bluffton High School was recognized by RandomActsofKindness.org as a distinguished kindness school for its efforts and will have its logo on the official website.

Teens For Healthy Youth at Bluffton Middle School (BLMS) promoted Random Acts of Kindness throughout the month of February. They made Post-it notes with positive messages to give to their peers. Examples of messages included “You Matter”, “You Are the Sunshine”, and THY BLMS led a Valentine’s Day Sale in which they sold carnations for a dollar. Students, teachers, and staff could purchase carnations for $1 and send a positive message with the carnation. THY BLMS sold 800 carnations during the Valentine’s Day sale.

Teens for Healthy Youth at Cross Schools encouraged everyone in the Cross Schools community to Make Kindness the Norm all year long. They displayed their THY Banner that reads “Make Kindness the Norm” during morning drop off. They also held a workshop for elementary school kids to paint rocks that had positive messages and inspiring Bible verses to promote kindness.

Teens for Healthy Youth at Hilton Head Christian Academy celebrated Random  Acts of Kindness Month by writing encouraging messages and uplifting Bible verses on post-it notes. They attached their messages to flowers and put them on students' cars and throughout the building to spread kindness.

The THY club at Hilton Head Prep made compliment cards with motivational stickers attached and put them in the lockers of middle school students. The cards were filled with cheerful and supportive messages designed to spread kindness and inspire the recipient to do the same. The goal is to create a ripple effect of positivity around the school. THY Hilton Head Prep also became a Distinguished Kindness School.

May River High School made a flyer to promote Random Acts of Kindness Month. They also coordinated a volunteer opportunity in which THY members could volunteer at a Senior Living Center to spread kindness to the elderly population of the community.

River Ridge Academy Middle School Teens for Healthy Youth created a video for their morning news to give students ideas on how to spread kindness at their school. View the THY video here. River Ridge Academy was recognized by RandomActsofKindness.org as a Distinguished Kindness School. Less than 400 schools nationwide have received this honor.

Teens for Healthy Youth are aware that bullying is a risk factor for teen substance use. Celebrating Random Acts of Kindness can create a culture of kindness and discourage bullying. Teens for Healthy Youth are dedicated to promoting positive teen health in their schools.

THY shared this flyer on their school’s social media accounts and posted it around the school so everyone had an opportunity to purchase candy grams.

THY BLHS made candy grams and delivered them prior to Valentine’s Day.

Over 1,200 students at BLHS signed the Random of Acts of Kindness Pledge.

THY members at BLHS put up over 30 posters from Random Acts of Kindness Foundation to promote kindness at their school.

Bluffton High was officially recognized as a Distinguished Kindness School for its efforts to make kindness the norm at school.

Bluffton Middle THY sold over 800 carnations to promote kindness at their school.

Teens for Healthy Youth at Bluffton Middle School made their own post it notes with positive messages to give to their peers.

Cross THY welcome car drivers and reminded all to make Kindness the Norm Every Day.

THY Cross schools painted positive messages & inspiring Bible verses on rocks with Cross elementary students to spread kindness during February Random Acts of Kindness Month.

HHCA THY members surprised students by leaving positive notes and carnations on their cars and on the doors of the school.

Hilton Head Prep was also recognized as a Distinguished Kindness School.

Hilton Head Prep middle schoolers put kindness stickers on their peers' lockers to spread kindness at their school.

MRHS made a poster to share their club’s initiatives for February with the school.