Red Ribbon Week
Each year in October, CFB celebrates Red Ribbon Week. The National Red Ribbon Week Campaign began in 1988. In response to the murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena, angered parents and youth in communities across the country began wearing Red Ribbons as a symbol of their commitment to raise awareness of the killing and destruction cause by drugs in America. When he decided to join the US Drug Enforcement Administration, his mother tried to talk him out of it. “I’m only one person”, he told her, “but I want to make a difference.” Camarena was murdered in 1985 while working for the DEA. In honor of Camarena’s memory and his battle against illegal drugs, friends and neighbors began to wear red badges of satin. Parents, sick of the destruction of alcohol and other drugs, had begun forming coalitions. Some of these new coalitions took Camarena as their model and embraced his belief that one person can make a difference. These coalitions also adopted the symbol of Camarena’s memory, the red ribbon.
See the calendar below for Red Ribbon Week Events at campuses this Fall.
Click here to learn more about the National Red Ribbon Campaign