• Organizing a parent media awareness group at your school. You can gauge the level of interest (and clarify your priorities and goals) by sending a copy of the Your Family and Media survey home to parents with your school newsletter.
• printing off the Managing Video Game Playing in the Home section and Talking to Kids about Media Violence tip sheet, and include them in your school or community newsletter. You could also include the URLs for the video game review sites we've recommended (see right sidebar).
  
  

The following young people have taken on the issue of media and video game violence with various initiatives:

• Thirteen-year-old Danielle Shimotakahara from Oregon, started the successful Cool No-Violence Peace Project to keep violent video games away from young children.
• Virginie Larivière from Quebec mounted a national petition demanding an end to television violence.