SENADES intensifies national deployment with workshops and forums to promote safe school environments

Published at: 25/05/2026 04:30 PM

As part of the citizen security policies framed in Vertex No. 1 of the Great Quadrants of Peace Mission, the National Service for Disarmament (SENADES) has intensified its preventive deployment in several states of the country.

Through forums, interactive workshops and street activities, it reaffirms its commitment to planting values, eradicating violence in children and building safe school environments.

During this important national agenda, School Patrol Day was highlighted, where SENADES participated in a preventive deployment in Plaza Bolívar in San Juan de los Morros, Juan Germán Roscio municipality, Guárico state; in coordination with the Bolivarian National Police Corps (CPNB), and the Preventive Front.

In addition, the boys and girls of the school brigades took strategic road points to make transporters and motorcyclists aware of respect for traffic regulations and the protection of school perimeters.

In addition, the channels of the Voluntary Disarmament program were broadcast through the 0800-Senade1 line.

On the other hand, in the state of Barinas, with the purpose of mitigating violence in classrooms, the institution held the workshop “Promoting Safe Environments: Bullying” at the Nelson Sánchez National School, Barinas municipality, providing 3rd grade students with key tools to identify and prevent 'bullying'.

In the state of Trujillo, the conference “My Life Project” was held at the Juan Bautista Carrillo Guerra School, Trujillo municipality. This activity empowered 19 5th grade students, linking dynamics of personal development with the promotion of peaceful coexistence and mutual respect.

Under the premises of “Weapons are not a game” and “Promoting safe environments”, the team of social preventive workers approached the 3rd and 4th grade students of the “Ramona Figueredo” Elementary School in the municipality of Biruaca. The activity focused on discouraging the use of toys and video games that simulate firearms.

Instead, traditional and dynamic group games such as the hot potato and the giant dwarf were rescued, which promote empathy, harmonious recreation and healthy coexistence. Also, in a strategic alliance with the Executive Directorate of the Judiciary (DEM) and the Judiciary, SENADES Mérida organized the pedagogical forum “War Video Games: Consequences, Prevention and the Route to Safe Environments” in the spaces of the Rectory.

This meeting served to examine, from a technical-legal and psychological approach, how prolonged consumption of violent digital content can normalize aggressive behaviors and affect the mental health of minors, providing parents and educators with critical tools to counteract these risks.

With this multidisciplinary deployment, SENADES confirms its unwavering mission to work early with the generation of relief, providing the necessary tools for young people to face the future with determination, in communities free of armed violence and oriented to collective well-being.

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