PlayCleanGo Toolkit
Save the Date: June 6-13, 2026
Free Action Toolkit
We protect the places we love.
The PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week Toolkit is designed to help partners, organizations, outdoor recreation groups, and individuals participate in PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week, taking place June 6–13, 2026, across North America.
Whether you are hosting an event, sharing prevention tips online, supporting outreach in your community, or encouraging stewardship on the trails and waterways you love, this toolkit makes it easy to get involved.
PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week is coordinated by the North American Invasive Species Management Association (NAISMA) in collaboration with Invasives Canada, CONABIO, and partners across North America to help prevent the spread of invasive species through simple recreation focused actions.
Download the Toolkit
The PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week Toolkit includes ready to use outreach materials to help partners, organizations, and individuals participate in PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week and encourage outdoor recreation audiences to help prevent the spread of invasive species.
Resources are organized into folders, making it easy to browse and download materials that best fit your audience, outreach efforts, and community events.
The toolkit includes:
- Social media graphics and sample captions
- Outreach messaging and prevention tips
- Logos and branding resources
- Press release and proclamation templates
- Webinar and photo contest promotional materials
- Multilingual outreach resources
Toolkit Resources
The downloadable files are organized into outreach themes including:
- Our connection to outdoor spaces [Activities]
- The everyday actions that help prevent the spread of invasive species [Actions]
- The community working together across North America to protect natural areas [Events]
Graphics are also grouped by outdoor recreation activities and prevention actions such as hiking, biking, paddling, camping, horseback riding, ATV recreation, climbing, Clean, Drain, Dry messaging, boot brush stations, and gear cleaning.
Additional downloadable graphics, captions, and multilingual resources are included in the toolkit folder.
Ways to Participate
There are many ways to support PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week:
- Share PlayCleanGo® prevention actions on social media
- Use #PlayCleanGo and #PlayCleanGoWeek
- Tag @PlayCleanGo on Facebook and X and @Play.Clean.Go on Instagram
- Participate in webinars and partner events throughout the week
- Submit photos to the PlayCleanGo® Photo Contest
- Encourage your community to take the PlayCleanGo® Pledge
- Incorporate prevention messaging into local events, trail outreach, and recreation programs
In Partnership Across North America
PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week is supported through partnerships with organizations and prevention campaigns working together to protect natural areas and outdoor recreation opportunities across North America.
Collaborating partners include:
- Invasives Canada
- CONABIO
- Don’t Move Firewood
- Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers
- Hungry Pests
- Recreation and land management partners across the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Together, we can help protect the places we love.
Cruising to explore new shores? Don’t forget to clean your footwear and outdoor gear before heading ashore. Unwanted seeds or soil can hitch a ride to sensitive environments. All of us can protect our favorite places, one port at a time.
#PlayCleanGo #PlayCleanGoWeek