District and school administrators have developed a plan to extend the Olweus
bullying prevention program from the few schools it's in now to every school in the county by 2014.
Not exact matches
Using a federal grant
from the Safe Schools / Healthy Students Initiative, the school implemented the Second Step violence -
prevention program, which includes
bullying intervention as a key component.
In fact, Maria Ttofi and David Farrington (both
from the University of Cambridge) conducted a more sophisticated analysis of forty - four
bullying prevention efforts (excluding
programs that targeted violence or aggression generally) and uncovered some promising evidence: ``... school - based anti-
bullying programs are effective: on average,
bullying decreased by 20 — 23 % and victimization decreased by 17 — 20 %.»
Sixty - five percent of the schools had some
bullying prevention program, presumably as reported by the students
from within those schools.
«Our research - based
bullying prevention program draws on
bullying - related research
from across the different stages of childhood.
New research
from ChildTrends found that
bullying prevention programs that use a whole - school approach to foster a safe and caring school climate — by training all adults to model and reinforce positive behavior and anti-
bullying messages — were generally found to be effective.
The focus of the school
programs ranges
from bullying prevention to interventions aimed at reducing anti-social behavior and helping children resist negative peer group influences.
Children raised by grandparents will likely benefit
from bullying prevention programs that take into account the specific dynamics, such as insecure attachment, associated with living in this alternate family arrangement.
The current study compared the efficacy of a combined universal violence
prevention approach that included individual - level skill - building (i.e., lessons
from Second Step) and school environment (i.e., Olweus
Bullying Prevention Program; OBPP) interventions to OBPP alone.
StandUp is a
bullying prevention program for adolescents that showed encouraging changes in behavior
from first to third session in a small sample of high school students.