top of page
Image by Jon Tyson

Two Entry Divisions:
Visual Art or Digital Art

Icons for 2026 Media Contest Website.png

*Please ensure that the "Shrink oversized pages" option is selected when printing to ensure it formats correctly.

straight on post it.png

  • Create a positive prevention poster (8" wide x 5" high landscape). 

  • Add a CLEAR message promoting an alcohol free or vape free lifestyle for youth.

  • Use the theme Art of Self-Care Alcohol-Free or Vape-Free or another positive message to promote healthy choices.

  • Use visual art/free hand media like markers, ink, pencils, pastels, watercolor, or crayons, OR Digital art.

  • Purely AI-generated art without proof of artistic input will NOT be accepted.

  • If your submission includes AI-assisted digital art, you must be able to show your creative process

  • The two divisions will be judged separately and winners will be selected from both categories. 

What?

short post it icon transaprent tilt down left.png

  • Help other students continue to make healthy choices.

  • Earn two (2) hours of community service for each entry.

  • Contest qualifies for the Florida Fine Arts Seal

  • Submit entry form and form 1941* to bit.ly/2026busposter

  • We will need permission or access to view your file.

  • *All Palm Beach County School District students must complete and attach Form 1941 to their entry.

Why?

How?

short post it icon transaprent tilt down right.png

  • All Palm Beach County K-12 students may enter, including those in home school, charter, and private schools.

Who?

short post it icon transaprent tilt down right.png

Why?

  • $1,000 Scholarship by the Hanley Foundation 

  • Nine (9) $100 gift cards (3 for Elementary, 3 for Middle, and 3 for High School)  

  • All entries eligible for one of two $50 gift cards in random raffle

  • One elementary, middle, and high school teacher will win a $100 raffled gift card

winners posters will be placed colorful text.png
short post it icon transaprent tilt down right.png

Deadline to receive all entries:

January 31st, 2027

When?

Palm Beach County Behavioral Health Coalition (PBCBHC) shall have the right to sell, duplicate, reproduce or use such rights transferred as PBCBHC desires. This agreement is given with free knowledge of the rights transferred to the Palm Beach County Behavioral Health Coalition. This agreement is made without restrictions or time limits without additional compensation besides scholarships and gift cards issued to winners. No entries will be returned.

Color pencils_edited.png
Icons for 2026 Media Contest Website.png
Gradient Background

Poster Contest Basics Do's and Don'ts

What to Do?

  • Use the theme (Healthy Mind, Healthy Future: Alcohol-Free or Vape-Free) OR write a positive, short, catchy vaping or alcohol prevention message targeted at youth.

  • The design MUST be LANDSCAPE (8 inches wide x 5 inches high).

  • Leave a small border around your artwork.

  • Keep the images and messages positive.

  • Include a fact about how vaping or alcohol affects youth. 

  • Cite your fact (note the source of your fact).  See Facts provided. 

  • Use original or copyright-free artwork.

  • Write your message in English, Spanish or Haitian Creole. 

  • For Hanley Foundation Scholarship, artist MUST use one of these facts: 

    • More than eight out of ten Palm Beach County middle and high school students are alcohol-free (2024 FYSAS) or 

    • 88% of Palm Beach County middle and high school students are alcohol-free (2024 FYSAS).

What Not to Do?

  • Scary pictures or messages (i.e., car crashes, grim reapers, tombstones, etc.).

  • Copyright protected material (i.e., Sponge Bob, Batman, etc.).

  • Copy someone's ideas.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) created or assisted art work.

  • Brand name products, trademarks or logos (i.e., Snickers, Doritos, Coke, etc.).

  • Pictures of vaping products or alcohol in your art work.

  • Use “Don’t”  in your message, instead tell them what to do to stay healthy.

Color pencils_edited.png
bottom of page