Participate

Kids, coaches, parents, teachers, friends and relatives. Bullying is everyone’s problem, and if we want it to stop, we can’t look the other way. We have to be willing to “Call it when we see it.”

That’s why it’s so important to participate in the Red Card campaign. We give you the resources to make a difference. All you have to do is use them. Together, we can make a difference for kids in the greater Kansas City area.

Pledge to Call it When You See It

Take the pledge. Together, we can stop bullying in the greater Kansas City area.

Become a School Partner

Red Card is a free campaign provided thanks to a partnership between Children’s Mercy Kansas City and Sporting KC. There’s no cost and no contract for school partners.

The resources we provide participating schools include:

  • Video with Sporting KC player
  • IPTV images
  • Tip cards for all students, teachers and parents in English and Spanish
  • Elementary school coloring sheets
  • Print and digital campaign posters for grade and middle school students
  • Trading card packs for all students
  • Promotional items
  • Sports area / stadium signage
  • Pledge posters addressing body shaming, cyberbullying, verbal abuse, transgender/pronoun use, disability, etc.
  • T-shirts for student leadership
  • Weekly announcements and social messages
  • Teacher resources in our exclusive partner area

In return, all we ask is that school partners distribute Red Card materials as appropriate, share feedback about the campaign with Children’s Mercy, and that students participate in brief surveys before and after implementing the campaign.

This will help us learn more about bullying in our community so that we can continue to address this important issue.

Our Partners

Currently, more than 60 schools across the greater Kansas City area are active partners in the Red Card campaign, and more schools are joining us every day. To participate, email RedCardKC@cmh.edu.

Academie Lafayette 

Alfred Fairfax Academy

Archie School / You Matter Archie

Arrowhead Middle School

Banneker Elementary School

Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School

Carl B. Bruce Middle School

Carver Dual Language School

Children’s Mercy Community Health Initiatives

Coleman Elementary School

Comanche Elementary School

Congress Middle School

COPPS of KCKPD

Creative Emajinations

Crestview Elementary School

Dayton Creek Elementary School

East Antioch Elementary School

Ellis Elementary School

Ervin Elementary School

Families Together, Inc.

Forest Spring Middle School

Frontier School of Excellence

Girls on the Run Serving Greater Kansas City

Gloria Willis Middle School

Graden Elementary School

Grain Valley South Middle School

Harmony Middle School

Henry Leavenworth Elementary Y-Club

James Elementary School

John Diemer Elementary School

Junction Elementary School

Leawood Middle School

Mahaffie Elementary School

New Stanley Elementary School

Nieman Elementary School

Norfleet Elementary School

Oak Grove Elementary School

Overland Trail Middle School

Oxford Middle School

Prairie Creek Elementary School

Prairie Point Elementary School

Prairie Star Middle School

Ray Marsh Elementary School

Renner Elementary School

Richard Warren Intermediate School

Rising Hill Elementary School

Rising Star Elementary School

Rosehill Elementary School

SCP Youth Soccer

Southeast Elementary School

Spring Branch Elementary School

Spring Hill Elementary School

Spring Hill High School

Spring Hill Middle School

St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School

St. Therese School

St. Thomas More School

Timber Sage Elementary School

Trailwood Elementary School

Valley Park Elementary School

Welborn Elementary School

West Park Elementary School

Whittier Elementary School

Wolf Creek Elementary School

Woodland Spring Middle School

Wyandotte High School

YMCA of Lansing Elementary School

Spread the Word

Help us tell others about the Red Card campaign, and how important it is to stop bullying now. Did you take the pledge? Share it.

Free Resources

Red Card is a free campaign provided thanks to a partnership between Children’s Mercy Kansas City and Sporting KC.

Here are a few of the many free resources available to our partner schools:

Watch Virtual Assembly

Download Reporting Forms

Download Communication Materials

Download Tip Cards

Download Elementary School Posters / Coloring Sheets (English)

Download Elementary School Posters / Coloring Sheets (French)

Recommended Books

Picture Books

  • You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!) by Taraji P. Henson
  • Do You Even Know Me? By Reem Faruqi
  • Way Past Mean by Hallee Adelman
  • The Pipsqueak by Ben Manley
  • Be Kind by Pat Ziestlow Miller
  • One by Kathryn Otoshi
  • Llama Llama and the Bully Goat by Anna Dewdney
  • I Walk With Vanessa by Kerascoët
  • How to Be a Lion by Ed Vere
  • Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery by David Gordon

K - 2

  • Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Don’t Sit on my Lunch by Abby Klein
  • The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
  • This Orq: He Say “Ugh!” by David Elliott
  • The Infamous Ratsos: Live! In Concert by Kara LaReau
  • Sir Ladybug and the Queen Bee by Corey R. Tabor
  • Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
  • Peanut, Butter, and Crackers: Fetch! By Paige Braddock
  • Fly Guy’s Amazing Tricks by Tedd Arnold
  • Not Little by Maya Myers
  • We’re Different, We’re the Same, and We’re All Wonderful by Bobbi Kates

3 - 6

  • Invisible Isabel by Sall J. Pla
  • The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
  • Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Dexter the Tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • The Many Masks of Andy Zhou by Jack Cheng
  • Mr. Lincoln’s Way by Patricia Polacco
  • Stuntboy, In the Meantime by Jason Reynolds
  • Dust by Dusti Bowling
  • The Real Deal by Lindsey Stoddard
  • Speak Up by Rebecca Burgess
  • Just Ask by Sonia Sotomayor

6 - 8

  • Jawbreaker by Christina Whyman
  • Warrior on the Mound by Sandra W. Headen
  • Duel by Jessixa Bagley
  • Hazel Hill is Gonna Win This One by Maggie Horne
  • Bystander by James Preller
  • Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
  • Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
  • The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander
  • Posted by John David Anderson
  • Bump by Matt Wallace

9 - 12

  • The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
  • Brock by Anthony McGowan
  • Love and Resistance by Kara H.L. Chen
  • Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer
  • Huda F Are You? By Huda Fahmy
  • Upstander by James Preller
  • The Chocolate War by Rober Cormier
  • King Dork by Frank Portman
  • Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
  • Gotham Academy Vol. 1: Welcome to Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan