Any successful
program on bullying prevention and awareness has to begin with education: Students, teachers, and parents need to know how to identify bullying and how destructive it is.
Parents and the general public want to place much more
emphasis on bullying prevention, while teachers think the matter only needs moderately more attention.
The money will be used to create community
workshops on bullying prevention, provide more funding for student clubs such as Gender and Sexuality Alliances, expand mental health training, and create a «bullying complaint portal» for families that is expected to launch in 2019 to report incidents.
School officials focused exclusively
on bullying prevention efforts might want to consider the findings of a new study showing the highly damaging effects of multiple forms of victimization on school climate.
Motivational Speaker Dr. Borba has presented keynote addresses throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific and has served as a consultant to hundreds of schools, parent organizations, and
corporations on bullying prevention, character education, and raising strong, caring kids.
Stopbullying.gov resources include Fact Sheets, Research Summaries, and Infographics that provide current research findings, evidence - based strategies, and
data on bullying prevention.
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.
«We've worked hard to translate the
research on bullying prevention into our Second Step Bullying Prevention Unit, and look forward to helping provide all schools with the tools they need to combat bullying.»
In this guest post, Dr. Michele Borba, an educational psychologist and parenting and bullying expert, offers specific, evidence - based
tips on bullying prevention.
But the state does provide training for school staff
members on bullying prevention, and it disseminates anti-bullying materials to schools districts, which earns the state points under Quality Counts» grading system.
In 2008, all teachers attended a half - day training which focused
on bullying prevention through the development of awareness, tolerance, relationship skills, conflict resolution, anger management, and self advocacy.
We consulted with the state on guidelines for the anti-bullying policy, helped create the district anti-bullying policy, and offer parent and community
workshops on bullying prevention.
She has presented keynote addresses throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific and has served as a consultant to hundreds of schools, parent organizations, and
corporations on bullying prevention, character education, and raising strong, caring kids.
Stopbullying.gov resources include Fact Sheets, Research Summaries, and Infographics that provide current research findings, evidence - based strategies, and
data on bullying prevention.
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.
The U.S. Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) and CDC have created a new self - directed online bullying prevention course hosted on StopBullying.Gov that features the newest
research on bullying prevention, has quizzes throughout the training to test knowledge, and offers free continuing education for teachers and staff.