


Your donation will make it possible for law enforcement agencies to dedicate more officers, to the existing 12,000, as G.R.E.A.T. certified instructors. These additional officers will be equipped to teach the G.R.E.A.T. Family component and the classroom curriculum to hundreds of new elementary and middle school children across the USA and abroad, adding to the approximately 450,000 children reached each year.
Your donation to the GFI will have a lasting impact in a child’s life, a child’s safety and the community. With an emphasis on good decision making, conflict resolution, and communication skills, youth who graduate the G.R.E.A.T. Program will receive the tools they need to become better citizens.
The GFI works closely with the G.R.E.A.T. Program to provide assistance in G.R.E.A.T.’s continuation of services uniquely designed around:
- youth crime prevention
- positive life skills
- bullying prevention
- gang resistance
- reduced juvenile delinquency
- encouraging positive relationships between community, parents, peers, schools, and law enforcement
- creating better citizens as future adults

“Choose to Be G.R.E.A.T.” Week is an event that takes place during the first full week of October each year. The purpose of this event is to draw awareness to the Program and to give G.R.E.A.T. students a sense of community as well as a sense of pride in the G.R.E.A.T. skills taught in the lessons of the Program.
This event can be held on one day of that week or for the entire week. Throughout this week, law enforcement officers across the United States and in Central America will be inviting their G.R.E.A.T. students to sign the official G.R.E.A.T. Pledge: “I pledge to use my G.R.E.A.T skills to reduce violence in my community, work to resolve conflicts peacefully, and stop bullying whenever I see it.