Community Partner Program

Working with teens IRL

Through our Community Partner Program, Project Unloaded works with teen-facing organizations to empower young people with the facts on why they’re safer unarmed – and to train teens on how to use social media to spread that message to their peers.

Since summer 2023, we’ve…

Teens Reached

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Through social media content created by students in our Community Partner Program

Cities and Counting

We’ve established partnerships in Chicago, Sacramento, and Philadelphia.

Participants

Our community programs have engaged hundreds of young people.

How It Works

We’ve built a curriculum that combines risk education about guns with social media marketing skill building and peer-to-peer activation.

Our programming and curriculum can be tailored based on the needs and input of our partners. Project Unloaded facilitators lead sessions, or we train our partners’ staff to facilitate on their own.

“What’s the most important takeaway from the program?”

The awareness of gun violence [in the country], and learning ways to stop [it] and help come together.

– Chicago program participant, Summer 2024

Learning that you are more safe without guns than with them.

– Chicago program participant, Summer 2024

Our Impact

Read our pilot case study and our most recent annual report to learn more about our impact in communities.

My favorite part of the program is knowing that I’m doing [something] beneficial

– Chicago program participant, Summer 2024

Meet Our Partners

Want us to come to your city 👀

Reach out to our Program Manager of Community Partnerships, Olivia Brown, at obrown@projectunloaded.org to learn more about opportunities for collaboration and to be added to our IN COMMUNITY partnerships newsletter.