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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 ...
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 ...
Brief on Suicide and Bullying
This Issue Brief, from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, examines the relationship between suicide and bullying among children and adolescents, with special attention to LGBTQ youth. The document explores strategies and action steps for ...
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 ...
Bullying Surveillance among Youths
Bullying Surveillance among Youths: Uniform Definitions for Public Health and Recommended Data Elements is designed as a tool to help researchers/evaluators, educators, public health officals and others gather systematic data on bullying to better ...
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 ...
California Healthy Students Research Project Brief on Bullying as Barrier to Academic Achievement
Examines the effect of bullying on academic performance across middle school grades. According to the study, bullying can account for up to an average 1.5 letter grade decrease in an academic subject.
Topics include: scope of the problem; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Connecting Adolescent Suicide to the Severity of Bullying and Cyberbullying
To date, previous studies have identified school bullying and cyberbullying victimization among adolescent youth as associated with suicidal thoughts and attempts, no work has measured the severity of bullying incidents and their impact of youth ...
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. ...
Evaluation of Olweus BPP: A Large Scale Study of US Students in Grades 3-11
The largest study of bullying prevention efforts in U.S. schools has revealed significant, sustained positive impacts from the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. Researchers at Clemson Univ. and the Univ. of Bergen, Norway evaluated about 70K ...
Findings from the NEA's Nationwide Study of Bullying
This study of staff members' perceptions of bullying from the National Education Association represents the first large-scale nationwide study examining different staff members' perspectives on bullying and bullying prevention efforts.
It is the ...
Four Decades of Research on School Bullying: An Introduction
An overview of findings from the past 40 years of research on bullying among school-aged children and youth. Research on definitional and assessment issues in studying bullying and victimization is reviewed, and data on prevalence rates, ...
Hopeful Minds Curriculums
Hopeful Minds curriculums are based on research that hope is teachable (a skill). Higher hope corresponds to greater academic achievement, improved health, increased productivity and less anxiety, depression, violence and loneliness. Hope leads to ...
Institute of Education Science - National Center for Education Evaluation
This study tested 51 characteristics of bullying victimization, bullying victims, and bullying victims schools to determine which were associated with reporting to school officials. It found that 11characteristics in two categoriesbullying ...
Issues & Answers: What characteristics of bullying, bullying victims, and schools are associated with increased reporting of bullying to officials?
This study tested 51 characteristics of bullying victimization, bullying victims, and bullying victims schools to determine which were associated with reporting to school officials. It found that 11characteristics in two categoriesbullying ...
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 ...
More Than Just Mean Girls: A Series on Relational Aggression
Produced by the University of Minnesota, Extension - These Lessons from the Field include a series of three video conferences addressing the issue of relational aggression. Topics include:
What is Relational Aggression and How Is It a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Parents and Providers: Partnering with Healthcare Providers to Respond to Bullying
If you notice changes in your child, and suspect bullying, where do you turn? Healthcare providers are caring resources that can have that important conversatoin with a child or teen, give support and refer to appropriate interventions. Check out ...
Peer Victimization (Bullying) Trajectories from Kindergarten through High School
Bullying and peer victimization in educational settings has become a national public concern partly because youth who are victimized by schoolmatesparticularly across multiple school years evidence a plethora of psycho-social and scholastic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Understanding the Psychology of Bullying
With growing recognition that bullying is a complex phenomenon, influenced by multiple factors, research findings to date have been understood within a social-ecological framework. Recognizing the fluid and dynamic nature of involvement in ...
USDE - Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies
Bullying in schools has become widely viewed as an urgent social, health and education concern that moved to the forefront of public debate on school legislation and policy. In August 2010, the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and ...
2011 Indicators of School Crime and Safety
The 2011 Indicators of School Crime and Safety, provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. The information presented in this report is intended to serve as a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they ...
Active Parenting Now
This video-based education program focuses on parenting skills for parents of children 2 - 12 years old. The six 2-hour sessions teach parents proactive strategies to raise child confidence, create a healthy parent/child relationships and how to ...
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 ...
Are “Gamers” More Likely to be “Bullies”?
Justin W. Patchin of the Cyberbullying Research Center has written an interesting blog about youth who self-identify as gamers (players of video games) being more at risk for engaging in a host of anti-social behaviors including bullying. In a ...
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 ...
Bias-Related Harassment among California Students
A factsheet using CHKS data to analyze the prevalence of harassment in California Schools, and correlate that harassment with a variety of other behaviors. Results indicate that in addition to the negative physical and mental effects of harassment ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bullying and Cyberbullying Laws Across America
A brief review of State bullying and cyberbullying laws and policies compiled by Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D. and Jason Patchin, Ph.D. of the Cyberbullying Research Center. The document summarizes the current state of cyberbullying bills and laws across ...
Bullying Explains Only Part of LGBTQ-Heterosexual Risk Disparities: Implications for Policy and Practice
Students who identify as LGBTQ experience higher rates of victimization by bullying than do their heterosexual-identified peers. The article investigates the extent to which this difference in rates of victimization can explain LGBTQ youths ...
Bullying, Cyberbullying and Sexual Orientation
Bullying that specifically targets youth and young adults based on their sexual orientation has gained significant attention in recent months. Researchers, Hinduja and Patchin present this fact sheet that summarizes their findings.
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 ...
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 ...
California Healthy Kids Survey
A California statewide survey of resiliency, protective factors and risk behaviors of students in grades 5, 7, 9 and 11. The survey features three main domains: Physical Health, Safety and Social Emotional Health. Data is collected for each domain ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Classroom Prevention Program
A first-grade program that combines a classroom management strategy called The Good Behavior Game with an enhanced academic curriculum in language arts and math. A Critique of the Week component addresses topics related to healthy lifestyles. ...
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, ...
Common Sense Reasoning for Detection, Prevention, and Mitigation of Cyberbullying
This research article offers new insight into the problem of cyberbullying and current efforts for its prevention. Cyberbullying (harassment on social networks) is widely recognized as a serious social problem, especially for adolescents. While ...
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 ...
Creating A Peaceful School Learning Environment - CAPSLE
The CAPSLE program works to develop mentalizing skills in students and staff across the wider school community, beginning with bystanders perceiving and accepting their own (unthinking) role in maintaining the bully-victim relationship through ...
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 ...
Electronic Media, Violence, and Adolescents: An Emerging Public Health Problem
Young people are using media technology and the Internet to communicate with others throughout the world. Social networking sites like Facebook have allowed youth to easily develop relationships, some with people they have never met in person. In ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gateway Drugs: How Does Addiction Start? Implications for Bullying Behavior
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of gateway drugs put together by the drug abuse and treatment experts at Foundations Recovery Network. With over 23 research citations and visual aids, the guide is both comprehensive ...
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 ...
GSA Network - California Research on Harassment/Discrimination of LGBT Youth
The Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA) has parterned with the California Safe Schools Coalition and Dr. Stephen Russell to help conduct, analyze, and publish a number of the research briefs and reports found on their website.
There are a number ...
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 ...
Indicators of School Crime and Safety - 2010
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2010 provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. The information presented in this report is intended to serve as a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they can ...
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 ...
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 ...
Love Is Not Abuse
This curriculum deals with sensitive issues related to dating abuse. During their teenage years, when they are no longer children, but not yet adults many young people begin to form their first romantic relationships. Dating violence/abuse is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Roots of Empathy (ROE) - Anti-Bullying Program
Roots of Empathy (ROE) is an evidence-based classroom program with significant effect in reducing levels of aggression among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy. This anti-bullying program starts as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Effects of Adolescent Health-Related Behaviors on Academic Performance
An investigation of longitudinal literature on the effects of the most predominant health-related behaviors including alcohol/marijuana use and bullying on adolescent academic performance. Thirty studies dating back to 1992 were retrieved from the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
What, me worry? Students, Stress and Learning
Stress is a physiological response (including bullying) to a perception of a lack of control. The research presented addresses how children and teens react to stress, symptoms of stress, and how young people perceive stress differently from adults. ...
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 ...
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. ...