Sentences with phrase «reducing bullying and harassment»

The idea of teaching social skills, such as the importance of considering another person's feelings, received a boost under the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, which requires that states show how they are improving «conditions for learning» at schools, including reducing bullying and harassment.

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Education Code 32270 (2003) establishes a statewide school safety cadre to facilitate interagency coordination and collaboration among school districts, youth - serving agencies, community - based organizations, and law enforcement agencies to improve school attendance, encourage good citizenship, and reduce school violence, crimes, gang membership and violence, truancy, bullying, and discrimination and harassment.

Promote school policies and practices that increase school safety by reducing violence, bullying, and harassment

ESSA requires states to describe how they will assist districts to reduce: bullying and harassment, the overuse of exclusionary discipline practices (e.g. suspensions, expulsions, school - based arrests), and seclusion and restraint.

The Academy is committed to reducing the unwanted sexual contact incident rate for Midshipmen, both on - campus and during sea year, and to fostering an environment where Midshipmen feel comfortable reporting sexual assault, sexual harassment and other instances of improper behavior, such as coercion, bullying and retaliation.

Elizabeth P. Johnson, a shareholder of Fowler White Burnett's Labor & Employment Practice Group, conducted a presentation to the American Conference Institute (ACI), regarding current trends in workplace harassment and how to reduce exposure to bullying, religious discrimination, and third - party discrimination.

The study aims to determine whether receiving the Second Step intervention in middle school reduces youth aggression, sexual violence, and substance use, and teen dating violence when in high school; to evaluate Second Step program effects on trajectories of bullying, victimization, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, and teen dating violence in high school, and to examine the relations among growth in aggression and substance use.

To reduce the impacts of bullying and harassment on the mental health of school - aged children, the Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan launched the Be Nice Initiative.

The Commission recommends that the Government ensure adequate and sustainable funding and independent monitoring of the national plan to reduce violence against women and children; and that there be increased attention to the prevalence of violence, bullying and harassment in our community, particularly in relation to children, the elderly, people with disability, [49] Indigenous peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, people who are gay, lesbian or bisexual, and people who are intersex and sex and / or gender diverse.

The Commission recommends that the Government ensure adequate and sustainable funding and independent monitoring of the national plan to reduce violence against women and children; and that there be increased attention to the prevalence of violence, bullying and harassment in our community, particularly in relation to children, the elderly, people with disability, Indigenous peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and people who are gay, lesbian or bisexual, and people who are intersex and sex and / or gender diverse.