Mission Statement

Project Safe Zone is committed to promoting awareness and sensitivity around the issues of sexism, homophobia, and gender equity. This program strives to provide students a non-discriminatory, inclusive environment, which facilitates the knowledge and empowerment to both recognize and challenge stereotypes and prejudices.

Objectives

• To empower students to make a positive change in their current and future environments by providing them opportunities to gain knowledge about and to examine critical issues around the topics of gender bias and inequity.
• To provide students with an introduction to critical issues around homophobia and sexism, as well as societal and personal discrimination and intolerance. 
• To enable students to use knowledge and information to make positive changes in their daily behavior, attitudes and perceptions and to infuse change into society as a whole. 
  
  

Our Long Term Goals

Project Safe Zone is by definition an expansion program.  It started as a small grass roots movement by Samohi students and is currently being expanded to other high schools on a pilot program basis. Ultimately, the original designers envision this valuable program expanding to the college and university levels as well as to private industry.