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Website Icon Aggression Replacement Training
The ART program combines anger control training, social skills training, and moral reasoning education in an attempt to alter the behavior of chronically aggressive adolescents with anti-social behavior (ASB) problems. The goal of the program is ...

Website Icon Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Anti-Bias Education: Parent, Family and Caregiver Resources
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) promotes respectful schools and communities offering a comprehensive anti-bullying/cyberbullying initiative. The website features a wide range of resources devoted to bullying prevention and anti-bias education ...

Website Icon Assuring Safe Schools for All Students: Addressing Gender-Based Bullying in Schools
This webinar is targeted for a variety of adult audiences in K-12 settings. Goals include: What schools need to know to address gender-based bullying/discrimination; California policies addressing bullying; and recommendations for dealing with ...

PDF Icon Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students - A Teaching Tolerance Guide
This best practice guide created in October 2018 has a school checklist to see how well you and your school are doing with meeting the needs of LGBTQ students. Check out the guides glossary of terms, words to avoid, preferred terms, inclusive ...

PDF Icon Bullying & Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Needs
Children with physical, developmental, intellectual, emotional and sensory disabilities are more likely to be bullied than their peers. Any number of factors such as social skill challenges or intolerant environments may increase their risk. ...

Website Icon Bullying in Schools: An Overview
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency (OJJDP) produces a Bullying in Schools bulletin series that summarizes findings from OJJDP-funded research on peer victimitization. In this edition, researchers from the National Center for School ...

PDF Icon Bullying of LGBT Youth - Fact Sheet
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, or those perceived as LGBT, may be teased and bullied by their peers. Educators, health professionals, parents, and other concerned adults can make a difference in the lives of LGBT youth. This ...

PDF Icon Bullying Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool
Assessing Prevention Capacity Implementing Change is a document designed to help agencies and community stakeholders determine where their efforts are in relation to best practices in bullying prevention and to help guide the implementation of ...

Website Icon BySTANDer Revolution - Take the Power Out of Bullying
Bystander Revolution differs from many other anti-bullying organizations in that it offers solutions for bystanders and allies, in addition to the targets of bullying. Hundreds of unscripted videos featuring students, celebrities, and leaders ...

Website Icon CDC Fast Fact: Preventing Bullying (updated 9/2/2021)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reviewed their bullying prevention page on 9/2/2021. The CDC includes bullying as a form of violence and an adverse childhood experience (ACE) in their definition. Included at this updated ...

Website Icon Committee for Children's Captain Compassion
Follow Captain Compassion and check out this fun and up to date page with comics that encourage kids and adults to learn how to activate and use their bystander power. Download the secret decoder wheel, meet Kid Kinder and view the weekly bullying ...

Website Icon Common Sense Media - Cyberbullying for Parents
Cyberbullying affects everyone, texting, social sites, media, networking, email and IM - this is how kids socialize. They tune in to find out whos dating who or what the math homework is. A helpful website for parents of Pre-Schoolers ages 2-4 to ...

Website Icon Common Sense Media Curriculum - Administrators, Teachers, Counselors
Go way beyond Internet safety! Turn students into great digital citizens. Get all the tools you need with this FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and Parent Media Education Program. The relevant, ready-to-use instruction helps you ...

Website Icon Community Matters
The programs and services of Community Matters include components of the Whole School Climate Framework. They are modular, providing the flexibility to address a schools specific culture, needs and goals: Safe School Ambassadors Safe School ...

Website Icon Cyber Smart! 21st Century Skills for Education
This site provides free, online professional development workshops for teachers designed to help develop skills and strategies for supporting students in the effective and appropriate use of technology in meeting student learning needs and promoting ...

Website Icon Cyberbullying Research Center - www.cyberbullying.us
The Cyberbullying Research Center provides up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. The site features publications, research, presentations, multimedia, resources and more. ...

PDF Icon Electronic Media and Youth Violence — A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers
Technology affords young people many benefits: the ability to talk to people worldwide and make rewarding social connections that may be difficult to make in person. Technological advances also create the potential for risk. This brief focuses on ...

Website Icon Facing History and Ourselves
This website features a variety of educator resources, lessons, workshops, webinars, and seminars to support the teaching of civic responsibility, tolerance, and social action to young people. History/social studies, English, art, and ...

Website Icon Get Help Now for Kids, Teens and Adults
Do you know a child who is being bullied at school? Do you know someone who is feeling helpless, hopeless or at risk of suicide? You may be that one trusted person that a child, teen or adult reaches out to. This landing page at StopBullying.gov ...

Website Icon Get Real About Violence
A K-12 anti-violence curriculum designed for participation by the entire school community. Targets a wide range of violent behavior: bullying, teasing, spreading rumors among younger children, and threats and assaults in later years. Students are ...

Website Icon Hey U.G.L.Y. - Unique Gifted Lovable You
Why the name U.G.L.Y.? Because it is one of the most negative words in our vocabulary and one of a handful that youth use to inflict pain on others and themselves. Developers converted ugly into Unique Gifted Lovable You as a way of turning ...

Website Icon It’s STILL Elementary – Talking about Gay Issues in School
Part of Groundsparks Respect for All Project facilitating the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities; Its STILL Elementary presents a moving story about the power to ignite positive social change through documentary film and ...

Website Icon Kidsdata.org
Serving as a gateway to comprehensive data about the health and well being of children across California, this website makes it easy to monitor trends and pinpoint disparities. Users can easily find shareable data from more than 35 trusted public ...

Website Icon Min Jee's Lunch - Learning for Justice
Check out the video of the book Min Jees Lunch by Elizabeth Kleinrock in the Story Corner at the Learning for Justice website (from issue 25, fall 2020). 4 questions are listed to ask children after hearing or reading the story. The questions ...

PDF Icon Mix It Up at Lunch Day Starter Guide from Learning for Justice
Opportunities for students to engage with one another and cross common social boundaries through this international campaign can increase understanding and acceptance and decrease bullying. This Mix It Up Starter Guide from Learning for Justice ...

Website Icon New Book in 2022! Effective Bullying Prevention - A Comprehensive Schoolwide Approach
A new book from Guilford Press! (2022) Effective Bullying Prevention - A Comprehensive Schoolwide Approach by Adam Collins and Jason Harlacher (based on implementation science) Includes reproducible materials to download and print in PDF ...

Website Icon October 2020 National Bullying Prevention Month Activities
Check out PACERs National Bullying Prevention Centers home page for free online activities for October - National Bullying Prevention Month Spookley the Square Pumpkins Digital Toolkit: Celebrating Kindness, Acceptance and Inclusion. Stop ...

Website Icon Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) is a school-wide program designed to improve peer relations to prevent and/or reduce bullying in the elementary and junior high school setting. OBPP has also been adapted successfully for high school ...

PDF Icon Preventing Bullying - 2020 Fact Sheet
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer this 2 page printable fact sheet created in 2020: Preventing Bullying. The fact sheet defines bullying, how big the problem is, the consequences, and guidance on how to stop bullying before it ...

PDF Icon Preventing Cyberbullying - Top Ten Tips for Teens
Take steps to prevent and protect yourself and others from cyberbullying! Check out this list of cyberbullying prevention tips for teens developed by the Cyberbullying Research Center (cyberbullying.org).

PDF Icon Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools
Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools was funded by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to help high schools, school districts, and their partners design and implement strategies to prevent suicide ...

Website Icon PromotePrevent/Preventing Bullying
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative provided valuable lessons about successful strategies for bullying prevention and intervention. For 11 years SS/HS grantees served as models of effective bullying prevention efforts and helped to ...

PDF Icon Responding to Hate and Bias at School
Does your school have plans and protocols in place to respond to school incidents that involve bigotry and hate? Bias incidents are complex, and an early misstep can heighten tension and damage chances for long-term success. Responding to Hate ...

Website Icon Responding to Hate and Bias at School - Webinar
Identify existing policies and procedures in your school for responding to hate and bias and learn how to draft an action plan in this webinar, Responding to Hate and Bias at School, from Learning for Justice. Also check out our link in this ...

Website Icon Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention for Middle School
A program that teaches empathy and communication, emotion-management and coping skills, and decision making to help students stay engaged in school, make good choices, set goals and avoid bullying, cyberbullying and peer pressure. Curriculum ...

PDF Icon Social and Emotional Learning and Bullying Prevention
This guide produced by The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) illustrates the relationship between social and emotional factors and bullying. It explores how a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) framework can be ...

PDF Icon Social Emotional Learning and Bullying Prevention
An easily understandable research summary from stopbullying.gov (May 2021) that explains the social emotional learning (SEL) educational approach and the benefits of students developing social and emotional skills. Of note: Studies have shown ...

Website Icon Teens Against Bullying - Pacer Center
Its time to take a look at this website again. Teens can spread the word: Noone Deserves To Be Bullied and ALL STUDENTS Deserve To Be Safe Check out this landing page and all that the Pacer Center has to offer for bullying and cyberbullying ...

Website Icon The Mosaic Project
The Mosaic Projects evidence-based, social-emotional learning curriculum emphasizes building empathy, resilience, and community. Social-emotional issues are addressed within the context of larger systems that perpetuate inequality (i.e. ...

Website Icon The UPSTANDERS - Finding Strategies to Overcome Cyber-Bullying
Check out this program from impactful that gives bystanders the tools to become confident upstanders! The Upstanders film program is about resilience and the power of connection to end bullying. All sides of cyber-bullying are explored, ...

Website Icon ThinkB4YouSpeak.com
For LGBT teens, homophopic remarks such as "that's so gay" is the most commonly heard slur they encounter. Often unintentional and a common part of teens' vernacular; most do not recognize the consequences, but the casual use of this language often ...

PDF Icon TikTok: Top Ten Tips for Teens
Are you a teenager (or parent or teacher of one) that likes to use the popular and fun TikTok video app? Check out this PDF from researchers at the Cyberbullying Research Center with tips for using the app safely and responsibly. Citation: ...

PDF Icon Warning Signs that a Child is Being Bullied
Bullying among children is aggressive behavior that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power or strength. Typically, it is repeated over time. Bullying can take many forms, such as hitting, teasing or name-calling, intimidation using ...

Website Icon What Kids Can Do
At this page StopBullying.gov offers simple and direct ways kids can keep themselves and kids they know safe from bullying. From treating everyone with respect to protecting yourself and standing up to others this compilation of information is ...

PDF Icon What to Do If You're Sexually Bullied
If youre a girl, chances are quite high that at some point in your life, someone will try to make you feel inferior or guilty for what they perceive as your sexuality or sexual behavior...This type of sexual bullying in unfair and upsetting, and ...

Website Icon "That's So Gay" Is Not OK!
Did you see what she was wearing? Thats so gay! has become a catch-phrase for youth and adults alike. The assumption underlying the comment is that its unacceptable to be lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender or questioning (LGBTQ). In a 2005 study ...

PDF Icon A Parent's Guide to Facebook - Helping Teens with Online Safety
Designed to teach parents how to help their teens strengthen their privacy and safety on Facebook, the guide features important topics such as risks involved in social networking, how to parent Facebook users, managing reputation in the digital ...

Website Icon Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Skills-based intervention promoting resilience through the development of skills such as self control, problem solving, positive social relationships and healthy choices. Classroom teachers use teaching approaches learned in the Al's Pals training ...

Website Icon All Stars
A skills-based intervention designed for both in-school and after-school/community settings. Utilizing group and one-on-one activities of approximately 45 minutes in length; the All Stars programs focus on building strong interpersonal relations and ...

Website Icon American Educational Research Association - Research File: Bullying Prevention & School Safety
School safety, including the prevention of bullying, is a top national priority and a key area of academic research. In recent years, AERA and its journals have examined many aspects of bullying and school safety. This compendium of articles ...

Website Icon American School Counselor Association
School counseling programs are collaborative efforts benefiting students, parents, teachers, administrators and the overall community. This site is supportive of parents and schools working together. Parents will find numerous resources from back ...

Website Icon American Society for the Positive Care of Children
The American SPCC is devoted to building an active, caring community adovcating for childrens rights and the welfare of families by increasing awareness of child abuse, promoting positive parenting, and offering anti-bullying strategies. This ...

Website Icon Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Bullying & Cyberbullying Prevention
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) promotes respectful schools and communities offering a comprehensive anti-bullying/cyberbullying initiative. The website features a wide range of resources devoted to bullying prevention and anti-bias education ...

Website Icon Arcohe Union School District (Herald, CA)
In 2009, the Sacramento County Student Mental Health and Wellness (SMHW) Collaborative developed a plan to promote student mental health through school-based programs and strategies. The Bullying Prevention Project (BPP) is the first major activity ...

Website Icon Association for Middle Level Education - AMLE
This link directs you to a variety of middle school resources for addressing and preventing bullying, on school campus and through social media, cell phone, smart phones and computers. Learn how to recognize electronic and school site aggression ...

Website Icon BAM! Body and Mind - Bullying Information and Video
BAM! Body and Mind, the youth centered webpage developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides kid-friendly information and activities on student health, nutrition, and emotional wellness. The Bullying page includes the ...

Website Icon Banishing Bullying Behaviors
This website is designed to be informative and elicit conversation with individuals who are interested in banishing bullying behavior among children and adults. It is also designed to educate parents and professionals about twice exceptional ...

PDF Icon Best Practices in Bullying Prevention & Intervention
Taken from the Bullying Prevention Resource Guide, which was developed as part of the Colorado Trust Bullying Prevention Initiative; this document outlines 8 best practices based on research and observation, training and technical assistance for ...

PDF Icon Best Practices in Bullying Prevention and Intervention
Bullying is aggressive behavior that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power or strength. Often, it is repeated over time and can take many forms. A review of existing bullying prevention programs and feedback from educators in the ...

Website Icon Big Brothers Big Sisters Mentoring Program
Designed for the promotion of resiliency in participating youth ages 6-18. Program focuses on positive youth development through a relationship that is based on trust and caring. Youth and children are matched with adult mentors who meet with ...

Website Icon Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Boys Girls Clubs provide a variety of after school and summer programs in safe community locations where students can learn, participate in activities, build relationships with positive adult professionals, and discover that hope and ...

Website Icon Building Skills
Building Skills is a 12-lesson, classroom-based social development curriculum specifically created for use with high-risk students in the 5th grade. The curriculum focuses on high risk students and their ability to deal appropriately with negative ...

Website Icon Bully Police USA ~ www.bullypolice.org
A website featuring a list of states that have anti-bully laws. Includes a rating scale, assigning grades A through D based on comprehensiveness of the state law.

Website Icon Bully-Proofing Your School - BPYS
BPYS is a nationally recognized comprehensive school safety program. Designed for handling bully/victim problems through the creation of a caring majority of students trained to take the lead in establishing and maintaining a safe and caring ...

Website Icon Bullying & Hate-Motivated Behavior Prevention
This compilation of resources offered by the California Department of Education includes: frequently asked questions, prevention programs, policy and implementation ideas, and suggestions for parents. A brief definition of bullying is provided, ...

Website Icon Bullying and Hate Motivated Behavior Prevention
This compilation of resources offered by the California Department of Education includes: frequently asked questions, prevention programs, policy and implementation ideas, and suggestions for parents. A brief definition of bullying is provided, ...

Website Icon Bullying Awareness Guidebook: Students Staying Safe in School
Cyber and physical bullying continue to be a growing concern and like so many misunderstood issues, education and awareness are the best prevention tools we have. This guidebook is intended to: educate students of all ages and their families about ...

Website Icon Bullying Prevention and Response Training Course @ StopBullying.Gov
StopBullying.gov encourages discovering your role in bullying prevention! A 1.5-hour online course is now available at the StopBullying.gov website. The course provides guidance on how to take a public health approach to bullying prevention ...

Website Icon Bullying Statistics
Statistics show bullying and harassment has become a huge problem. This website is intended to help educate the public on bullying issues - in schools, in the workplace and adults and youth who bully. The site offers information and resources on ...

Website Icon California Department of Education School Safety Resources
The California Department of Education's Safe Schools web page offers a list of available training opportunities, resources and technical assistance to help establish school/community environments that are physically and emotionally safe, well ...

Website Icon California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
This site provides information related to selected child welfare programs. Programs featured on the site are being used in California to promote child and family well-being. Resources are listed by topic areas including behavior management, parent ...

Website Icon Care, Assess, Respond, Empower - CARE
CARE (Care, Assess, Respond, Empower) is a computer-assisted suicide assessment interview, Measure of Adolescent Potential for Suicide (MAPS), followed by a 2-hour motivational counseling and social support intervention. Counseling is conducted by a ...

Website Icon Caring School Community (CSC)
A key feature of this universal K-6 school climate program is the school-wide implementation of the model. CSC focuses on strengthening students’ connectedness to school thereby increasing academic motivation and achievement and reducing drug use, ...

Website Icon Center for Safe Schools
A statewide clearinghouse for educators, law enforcement, parents and others on school safety and youth violence prevention. Located in Pennsylvania, it is one of 20 Statewide School Safety Centers in the nation. CSC offerings include professional ...

Website Icon Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
Housed at the University of Colorado Boulder, the CSPV disseminates information/resources, offers technical assistance and conducts research related to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence. The website provides a ...

Website Icon Center Joint Unified School District (K-12)
In 2009, the Sacramento County Student Mental Health and Wellness (SMHW) Collaborative developed a plan to promote student mental health through school-based programs and strategies. The Bullying Prevention Project (BPP) is the first major ...

Website Icon Cerebral Palsy and Bullying
Studies concerning childhood bullying suggests that children with disabilities are sometimes more likely to be bullied than their non-disabled peers, typically during school. In turn, this can negatively impact their ability to learn and acclimate ...

Website Icon Committee for Children: Bullying Prevention Resources for Educators & Families
Are you interested in empathy, social emotional learning and mindfulness for preventing bullying? Check out Committee for Childrens website page specifically for bullying prevention resources. Parents and educators will find helpful videos, ...

Website Icon Common Sense Media--Standing up, Not Standing By: A Free Toolkit for Educators
This free toolkit supports educators in preventing cyberbulying, which hurts students, disrupts classrooms, and impacts school culture. The resources include lessons for students, resources for parents, and strategies for handling cyberbullying ...

Website Icon Community Action Planning: "Bullying Prevention and Response Training Module"
These Bullying Prevention Training Module materials are designed to support community and school efforts in the presentation of research-based resources that can help lead bullying prevention efforts. Slides help present the latest information and ...

Website Icon Conscious Discipline
A program that integrates classroom behavior management strategies with social-emotional learning (SEL) to increase self-regulation and improve classroom and school climate. Emotional intelligence is addressed for both adults and children. ...

Website Icon Coping and Supporting Training (CAST)
A community/school-based prevention program that teaches life skills in a positive peer group setting to build resiliency against risk factors and control early signs of emotional distress and substance abuse. All participants work and support one ...

PDF Icon Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment on Our Nation's School Buses
See Something. Do Something is a toolkit specifically designed for training transportation department personnel. The 2-part series includes modules that complement and complete each other. Module 1, Intervening in Bullying Behavior addresses how ...

Website Icon Curriculum-Based Support Group (CBSG) Program
Group intervention designed to increase resiliency and reduce risk factors among students in kindergarten through middle school who are identified by school counselors and faculty as being at higher risk for early substance use and future ...

Website Icon Cyber Friendly Schools
Recognized internationally as a comprehensive evidence-based approach this whole-school, online cyberbullying prevention and intervention program is based on a social-ecological approach and considers the many factors that influence students ...

Website Icon Dealing With Bullies (for Kids)
This recently reviewed and easy to read article about bullying (March 2023) shares valuable information that can be helpful to children, youth and parents. It is printable and easily shareable. Its topics are: Bullying Is a Big Deal Why Do ...

Website Icon Don’t Feed the Bully/I’m Gonna Write That Down
A whole-school bullying prevention program featuring a solution and research-based interventions model. The goal of the program is to create 100% stakeholders in every school by using fun, useful solutions to any bullying problem, and creating ...

Website Icon Elk Grove Unified School District Anti-Bullying Initiative
Elk Grove Unified has developed strategies for bullying prevention and intervention to help keep students safe and ensure a healthy learning environment. The district has an extensive board policy on bullying that includes cyberbullying, bullying ...

PDF Icon Embedding Bullying Intervention into a Comprehensive System of Student and Learning Supports
This special edition of the UCLA Mental Health in Schools Center's newsletter, Addressing Barriers to Learning, explores the scope of the problem of bullying; the implications of labeling students as bullies and victims; bullying behavior as a ...

Website Icon Embrace Civility in the Digital Age
A website addressing youth well-being and risk in the digital age in a manner that promotes positive norms, increases effective skills and resiliency, and encourages young people to be helpful allies who positively intervene when they witness peers ...

Website Icon Engaging Schools
Engaged students learn! Engaging Schools consultants collaborate with middle and high school educators using research-based services to build a learning-focused culture with a caring, respectful and welcoming climate. Engaging Schools also offers ...

Website Icon Expect Respect: Bullying and Harassment Prevention in Positive Behavior Support (PBIS )
Expect Respect, developed with, by, and for middle and high schools, builds from a long history of establishing school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports. Based on procedures documented to be effective in reducing bullying in ...

Website Icon Eyes on Bullying Toolkit
Issues surrounding bullying can often be complex. Knowing how and when to intervene requires effective strategies and practics. Eyes on Bullying, a downloadable toolkit features specific insights, strategies, activities and resources to address ...

Website Icon Families and Schools Together (FAST)
FAST is a multifamily group intervention designed to build relationships between families, schools and communities to increase well-being among preschool through high school students. The goals of FAST are to improve family functioning, prevent ...

Website Icon First Steps to Success
An interactive home-school intervention for preschool and K-3 that targets children exhibiting antisocial behaviors. The program teaches social skills including sharing, cooperating and following rules. Kits include an implementation guide and ...

Website Icon Fix School Discipline
Produced by the Public Counsel of California, this website contains a toolkit to support and guide schools in addressing discipline and creating positive climates for student learning and wellness. Numerous resources are listed and specific ...

Website Icon Galt Joint Union Elementary School District
Student safety is a top priority. The Galt Joint Union Elementary School District (GJUESD) does not allow any behaviors that infringe on the safety, emotional or physical well being of any student. The GJUESD will not tolerate bullying. The GJUESD ...

Website Icon Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)
A school-based gang and violence prevention program for elementary and middle school students taught by law enforcement officers. The program features components that focus on providing students with life skills that help them avoid using ...

Website Icon General Guidance on Bullying: Bullying Prevention and Response
In this 11-minute video, Karen Meyers of the Orange County Department of Education summarizes California laws regarding bullying and discusses factors districts may want to consider when responding to bullying allegations. This presentation ...

Website Icon Girls Circle and The Council for Boys and Young Men
One Circle Foundation offers three models Girls Circle, The Council for Boys and Young Men, and Womens Circle. The programs employ evidence-based principles of a strengths-based approach, motivational interviewing strategies and a strong focus on ...

Website Icon GirlsHealth.gov
Be Happy. Be Healthy. Be You. Beautiful GirlsHealth.gov is a website that offers girls reliable, useful information on health and well-being. The site covers a wide range of topics including stopping bullies, dealing with conflict, social media ...

PDF Icon Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
The purpose of this document is to present different strategies and approaches for members of school communities to consider when creating safer learning environments. It includes sections on Crisis Planning and Preparation, How to Respond during a ...

PDF Icon Hamilton Fish Institute: The 411 on Bullying
The Hamilton Fish Institute compiled this comprehensive research-based document on the topic of bullying. Starting with the basic 4-1-1 that includes a definition, normal conflict vs. bullying behaviors, common examples and types of bullies and ...

Website Icon HelpGuide.Org
HelpGuide.Org is a non-profit guide to topics and issues related to mental health and well being. The webpage, Dealing with Bullying provides resources on bullying, cyberbully, whos targeted and why, and tips for parents if their child is a ...

Website Icon I Can Problem Solve...
Promoting school bonding, ICPS is a universal school-based program that focuses on enhancing the interpersonal cognitive processes and problem-solving skills of students ages 4-12. For preschool through intermediate elementary grades ICPS ...

Website Icon IBP Association’s – Guidelines for Selecting Bullying Prevention Resources
The International Bullying Prevention Association (IBPA) has developed a handy checklist when considering bullying prevention and intervention resources. At the website, scroll down and click on Resource Guidelines Online Form Categories ...

Website Icon Incredible Years Program
Curriculum based program for students, teachers and parents of students pre-kindergarten to middle school. Skills based group learning to promote social emotional and behavioral competence. Parent and child competencies are developed in tangent with ...

Website Icon Is it Bullying or Conflict? Understanding the Difference...
Conflict is a struggle between two or more people who perceive they have incompatible goals or desires. Conflict occurs naturally as we interact with one another. It is a normal part of life. Whereas Bullying behavior is very different from ...

PDF Icon Jim Dillon's Top 5 Culture-Changing Tips for Schools
Jim Dillon is an author and school administrator with more than 35 years of experience in education. As principal of Lynwood Elementary in NY, he developed a program to decrease innappropriate behavior on school buses. Dillon also founded the ...

Website Icon Kid Power Bullying Solutions
A website offering resources to help parents and caregivers protect children and teens from harm including strategies that empower youth to take charge of their own emotional and physical safety. A free online library of bullying solution ...

Website Icon KiVa Antibullying Program
A school-wide intervention that addresses individual-, classroom-, and school-level factors. Manuals and curricula are developmentally targeted, for grades OneThree, FourSix, and SevenNine. Materials are available to provide information and advice ...

Website Icon Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching for Tolerance)
Learning for Justice, formerly Teaching for Tolerance, provides free resources to educators who work with children from kindergarten to high school. Teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners who work with children can use these ...

Website Icon Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence
A comprehensive life skills program designed for schoolwide and classroom implementation for grades 6-8 (ages 10-14). The program employs a variety of instructional strategies, including inquiry, discussion and group work. Eighty 45-minute ...

PDF Icon Livestreaming – Top Ten Tips for Teens
The Cyberbullying Research Center has developed a brand new Top Ten list for teens called Livestreaming: Top Ten Tips for Teens with the goal of helping youth use livestreaming services with integrity.

Website Icon National Center for Learning Disabilities
The National Center for Learning Disabilities has partnered with The Bully Project to draw attention to the nationwide problem of bullying and to commit time and resources to prevent and stop bullying of children with learning disabilities. This ...

Website Icon National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network was established to improve access to care, treatment, and services for traumatized children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events. NCTSNs collaboration of frontline providers, researchers, and ...

Website Icon National School Climate Center (NSCC)
A safe and supportive school environment nurtures social, ethical, and academic growth. NSCC focuses on promoting a healthy learning climate by providing a variety of resources, programs, and best practices related to bullying prevention and ...

Website Icon Not In Our School/Not In Our Town
A Not In Our School Campaign is an ongoing commitment to enpower students to create safe and inclusive environments that are free of bullying, anti-gay harrassment, bigotry, racism, and all forms of intolerance. This quick start guide provides ...

Website Icon One Circle Foundation
The One Circle Foundation assists communities and agencies in recognizing and reporting abuse and neglect; development of school based support systems for mandated reporters and creating public service announcements. The organization is dedicated ...

Website Icon Overcoming the Bystander Effect
Bullying. Most people sometimes freeze or react poorly because they don’t understand the reality of what is happening. They may be in disbelief or don’t know what to do. Young people need to be taught the skills needed to prevent and stop bullying ...

Website Icon PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center
The End of Bullying Begins with You. PACERs National Bullying Prevention Center unites, engages and educates communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant and interactive resources. PACERs bullying prevention resources ...

Website Icon PBIS-Stop Talk Walk Technique: Preventing Bullying Behavior
The Stop Talk Walk Technique is a PBIS strategy designed to teach students how to stand up to behavior that they feel is offensive or not wanted. The strategy is best utilized and taught school-wide as part of the regular rules and procedures. ...

Website Icon Peace Talks - Preventing Violence DVDs
Michael Pritchard uses a 10 video series of 30 minute lessons to teach grade 6-12 students to avoid dangerous situations in the streets, at school, and in the home. Real students were filmed in diverse schools in the USA in the series that ...

Website Icon Peaceful Schools International - PSI
PSI offers many different types of resources for schools, students, and parents, including films, books, teaching guides, toolkits and more! Most items that are available to download free of charge. PSI works with schools around the world to help ...

Website Icon POINT BREAK
Officially registered as an evidenced-based program by SAMHSA, this one-day workshop for teens promotes resiliency, problem-solving skills, conflict resolution, empathy and respect for others. High-energy activities are intended to engage students ...

Website Icon Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS)
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) a framework for achieving improved academic and behavioral outcomes for all students. It guides intervention at the school and district level by a structure to support the adults and students ...

Website Icon Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy and Practice 2016
Bullying behavior is a major public health problem demanding the concerted and coordinated time and attention of parents, educators/administrators, health care providers, policymakers, and others concerned with the care of children. Preventing ...

Website Icon Project Cornerstone
A YMCA of Silicon Valley initiative offering programs for students, teachers/staff and parents/caregivers to prevent bullying and promote a positive school climate/culture. Student workshops address consequences of bullying and how to identify and ...

Website Icon Que Es El Acoso - StopBullying.gov Espanol Website
Like the English language version, the new site provides parents, teachers and community leaders with resources they need to prevent bullying. Explore the new site for research and best practices on cyberbullying, prevention and response. You will ...

Website Icon Ripple Effects Whole Spectrum Intervention System
A computer-based program for students that has 140 topics for 6-12 year olds and 390 topics for 13-17 year olds. Topics can be customized for the individual student and address social-emotional competencies such as assertiveness, decision-making, ...

Website Icon Sacramento City Unified School District
In July 2011, SCUSD launched a comprehensive bullying prevention program focused on reducing bullying and harassment of students district-wide. The program is designed to address the issue of bullying systemically and follows the district’s ...

Website Icon Safe School Ambassadors Program
The Safe School Ambassadors (SSA) program is an "inside-out" approach to improving school climate, that relies on social norms change and the power of students to help stop bullying and violence. Student bystanders are a critical and under-utilized ...

Website Icon San Juan Unified School District
Visit the Districts website and find bullying prevention resources at your fingertips! Discover a variety of in-district resources as well as links to outside resources on topics such as bullying and cyberbullying, media literacy, social-emotional ...

Website Icon Scholastic: Parent Guide to Bullying Prevention
The Parents Guide to Bullying website, by Scholastics Parent Child Magazine features a variety of resources and tools for parents about bullying behavior. On the homepage, parents will find a list of age-appropriate anti-bullying books for ...

PDF Icon Sharing Ideas and Resources to Keep Our Nation's Schools Safe (Volume II)
In this second edition of Sharing Ideas and Resources to Keep Our Nations School Safe, readers will find information about school safety-related programs from federal agencies such as the FBI and U.S. Department of Education; efforts at the state ...

Website Icon Social Skills Group Intervention (S.S.GRIN)
A social skills program for students in grades 3-5. The focus is on building social problem-solving skills in behavioral, cognitive and emotional areas. The program can be implemented by school counselors, psychologists or social workers in ...

Website Icon Stopbullying.gov
A federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Includes resources/information on the definition of bullying/cyberbullying, whos at risk, how to respond and prevent bullying. Includes updates, featured ...

PDF Icon Strategies for Becoming an Ally Before, During and After Bullying
Developed by author and educator Signe Whitson in partnership with the Crisis Prevention Institute, this fact sheet provides strategies and down-to-earth, practical advice for professionals and parents on navigating the daily challenges of living ...

Website Icon Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere - STRYVE
STRYVE is a national initiative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prevent youth violence before it starts among young people ages 10 to 24. STRYVEs vision supports the notion of safe and healthy youth who can achieve ...

Website Icon Suicide Is Preventable
Know the warning signs for suicide and how to have a direct conversation with someone who may be in crisis. But don't keep this important information to yourself. Help educate others by sharing this website with friends, family and loved ones ...

Website Icon Teach Peace Now
Teach Peace Now (TPN) offers books, activities, lesson plans, and ideas that teachers, parents and students can use to promote values, attitudes and behaviors which encourage non-violent resolution of conflict, respect for human rights, democracy, ...

Website Icon Teaching Channel - Bullying Prevention
The website houses a 3-part Bullying Prevention Video Series to assist parents in helping their children and school community. Videos include, Bully Proof Your Child, Become a Solution Coach; Creating Rules and Rubrics to Prevent Bullying; and ...

PDF Icon Technology and Youth - Protecting Your Child from Electronic Aggression
Techology and youth seem destined for each other. They are both young, fast paced and ever changing. In the last 20 years there has been an explosion in technology offering many potential benefits for youth. However, this recent explosion does not ...

Website Icon The Fourth R - Strategies for Healthy Youth Relationships
Skills for Youth Relationships is a curriculum for students in 8th and 9th grades designed to promote healthy and safe behaviors related to dating, bullying, sexuality and substance use. Based on social learning theory and grounded in stages of ...

Website Icon The Great Body Shop
A classroom-based program designed to promote health and prevent substance abuse and violence for children in pre-kindergarten through middle school. The curriculum offers 10 monthly themes, including bullying, nutrition, character education, ...

Website Icon The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Schools and communities across the U.S. are contending with many factors that affect conditions for learning, such as bullying, harassment, violence and substance abuse. The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) is ...

Website Icon The Ophelia Project
The Ophelia Project serves youth and adults who are affected by relational and other non-physical forms of aggression by providing a unique combination of tools, strategies and solutions.

Website Icon The PAX Good Behavior Game
PAX is a set of strategies to help students learn important self-management skills while collaborating to make their classroom a peaceful and productive learning environment. Centered on the Good Behavior Game, PAX is not a classroom management ...

PDF Icon The Ultimate School Bullying Prevention Advice Guide
Developed by The Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) of Australia, this guide contains a collection of enlightened answers to help: Kids who are being bullied Teachers and School Administrators Advocates Kids who bully CPI conducted an ...

Website Icon Too Good for Violence
Too Good for Violence K-12 is a universal, violence prevention and character education program that teaches character-based skills, attitudes, and behaviors to help students: differentiate between feelings and actions, encourage respect between ...

Website Icon UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools
The UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools offers a number of resources and tools as well as a program clearinghouse and publications to support schools in creating environments for social emotional wellness and academic success. They also have ...

Website Icon UCLA School Mental Health Project
The UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools offers a number of resources and tools as well as a program clearinghouse and publications to support schools in creating environments for social emotional wellness and academic success. Use the website's ...

PDF Icon Understanding and Intervening in Bullying Behavior
This training toolkit (produced by USDEs Safe Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center) is comprised of two modules addressing bullying in classrooms. The 2-part series include: Module 1: Understanding and Intervening in Bullying Behavior, ...

PDF Icon Understanding Bullying – 2013 CDC Fact Sheet
A clear and concise overview of bullying, this fact sheet developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examines what bullying is and is not, and includes tips/information on: Definitions Impact on health Bullying as a public ...

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Understood began with a dream to give parents of students with learning and attention issues everywhere access to the kind of resources usually only available to a few. Kids with learning and attention issues often get support and services at ...

PDF Icon What Works Brief: Harassment & Bullying
Developed by the California Safe and Supportive Schools (S3) Technical Assistance Center, What Works Briefs summarize state-of-the-art practices, strategies, and programs for improving school climate. Based on the most current research, this brief ...

PDF Icon What Works Brief: Opportunities for Meaningful Participation
Developed by the California Safe and Supportive Schools (S3) Technical Assistance Center, What Works Briefs summarize state-of-the-art practices, strategies, and programs for improving school climate. Based on the most current research, this brief ...

Website Icon Worried About a Friend? Use your E.D.G.E
Learning for Justice brings us this article by Beth Hoover (June 6, 2018): Students dont always know how to help someone they care about who might be experiencing bullying, suicidal thoughts or other problems. This can help. The author shares ...

PDF Icon Youth Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention: 2017 Resource Guide
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for U.S. children and youth ages 10 through 24. This guide divides selected resources into seven main sections including evidence-based practices and program planning. There are several notable ...

Website Icon Youth Suicide Prevention and Student Mental Wellness Series Online Courses
Developed with support from the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) for the Region 11 K-12 Student Mental Health Initiative, these no-cost course modules are designed for district/school educators and mental health professionals. ...

Website Icon Youth.Gov - Bullying Prevention and More!
The Youth.gov website created by the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), is composed of representatives from 12 Federal agencies that support programs and services focusing on youth. Of particular note is the Youth Topics ...

Website Icon Zippy's Friends
A school-based program to develop coping and social skills for children ages 5-7. The curriculum includes 24 weekly, 45-60 minute lessons. Teachers receive two days of training on the curriculum, which is organized around six themes: identifying and ...