The Ambassadors make up a network of young people who share and develop best practices and who have received training to help them present
bullying prevention initiatives and provide on - going peer support.
We still provide far too little funding to
bullying prevention initiatives to help them do what they are intended to do.
Bullying prevention initiatives are most successful when there is a focus on empowering bystanders to safely intervene and promote a safe and respectful environment.
Not exact matches
Program staff coordinates high - level trainings, advises stakeholders as they develop curriculum, and evaluates existing
initiatives aimed at
bullying prevention.
Learn more about our program research, policy and advocacy
initiatives, our
Bullying Prevention Unit, and how to incorporate bullying prevention and social - emotional learning into classrooms and comm
Bullying Prevention Unit, and how to incorporate
bullying prevention and social - emotional learning into classrooms and comm
bullying prevention and social - emotional learning into classrooms and communities.
All across the country this month, hundreds of schools and organizations are recognizing the harmful affects of
bullying through collaborative programs,
initiatives, and
bullying prevention measures to highlight what students and educators can do to ensure safe and healthy school environments.
She works on state - and national - level youth
initiatives, serving on the Washington State legislative anti-
bullying work group and advising organizations such as Sesame Workshop and the Born This Way Foundation on
bullying prevention and social - emotional learning.
Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align
initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning,
bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout
prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar
initiatives.»
Rather than asking what we are doing (or not doing) in schools that so alienates some students that they eventually leave (or are pushed out), schools are often content with implementing «
bullying prevention» programs or «positive discipline»
initiatives that treat selected symptoms but never get at the root causes connected to problematic, unequal, unproductive, prejudicial conditions and relationships.
This includes identifying and addressing the impacts of racism on children and young in other national
initiatives and inquiries such as those focused on suicidal behaviour and self - harm,
bullying, and access to mental health
prevention and care services..
Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align
initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning,
bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout
prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar
initiatives.»