This year as National Bullying Prevention Month approached, the Heroes In Waiting team had so many goals. We wanted to take our high-powered anti-bullying assemblies to as many students in as many schools as we could during the month of October…
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Heroes In Waiting is thrilled to announce the selection of our inaugural 2023-2024 Teen Advisory Board. This talented group of students will contribute their energy and ideas to our anti-bullying and peace-building efforts by helping to make our programming…
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Heroes In Waiting is SO PROUD to honor our own real-life hero! Executive Director Jim Stewart was recently recognized with the inaugural “Second-Half Hero” award by the good folks at Second Half Expo, an annual event that honors seniors by serving up “everything for the 50+ generation.”…
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At Heroes In Waiting, we’re on a critical mission to contribute to the mental wellness of children and youth. We do that every day with anti-bullying and peace-building programming that aims to teach kids things like empathy and understanding…
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Heroes In Waiting is thrilled to welcome the newest partner in our mission to ensure the safety…
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There’s not much that gives us more energy than hanging out with the *real* heroes who spend every day on the front lines educating and caring for our kids.
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When we heard that the students and faculty at Heritage Hall school in Oklahoma City were showing up to celebrate something called UNITY DAY, the Heroes In Waiting…
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From the latest CDC reports to all-too-frequent school shootings and teen suicide statistics, the heartbreaking decline in youth mental wellness screams from the headlines – and whispers in our homes – almost daily.
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Tucked along a quiet, winding street just a few miles north of I-40 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, sits a fairly unremarkable cinder-block building. It has a parking lot, a tree or two, and …
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We met our friend Rayden in 2019, when a heartbreaking video of this brave, resilient young man living with autism sparked a social media firestorm. The video showed him being bullied…
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