Image Schools across the country are gearing up for a few weeks off for winter break. This can be a great time to check in with your child and talk to them about their experiences with bullying and cyberbullying. You may have stories to share with them about how you …
Read More »Bullying Has Negative Consequences For All Involved
Bullying is an unwanted aggressive behavior characterized by repetition (i.e., it is repeated or has a high likelihood of being repeated), and a power imbalance that is observed or perceived (i.e., youth bullying others have more physical and/or social power than bullied youth). The behavior is intentional and can result …
Read More »Be Someone’s Hero
Be Someone’s Hero About one in five teens reports being bullied, which is harmful, but preventable. This video will support a larger effort on the VetoViolence Facebook page during National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month in October 2017.
Read More »Empowering Schools to Change Behavior and Attitudes
Findings and conclusions reported in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. As we have come to recognize bullying as a significant problem within our school systems, a number of programs have been …
Read More »A Community-Based Approach to Bullying
In Howard County, Maryland, we knew we needed to tackle bullying and cyber-harassment, after a few serious incidents focused our attention and raised awareness of these problems in our community. We examined current laws and discussed whether to push for new state legislation. We looked at how our public schools …
Read More »Becoming an Upstander to Bullying Just Got Easier!
Don’t be a bystander when it comes to bullying. Be an Upstander! StopBullying.gov has new resources to help you safely upstand to bullying. For example, our new Bystander Fact Sheet details the different roles bystanders play in stopping or enabling the bullying behavior. We have also released the new Become …
Read More »Bullying, Violence, and Gangs
The issue of bullying is a growing concern in schools across the United States. A lot of research attention has been given to the overlap between bullying and other forms of youth violence, including gang related, as well as behavioral health risks, such as substance use. Bullying can be a …
Read More »February 26- March 4, 2018 Is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 26 – March 4, 2018 is Eating Disorders Awareness Week and an opportunity to talk about the connection between bullying and eating disorders. Weight-based teasing and bullying have been identified as common experiences for youth, particularly for those who may be heavier. Children whose peers tease them about their …
Read More »Choose Kindness and Sportsmanship, Not Bullying
You might think that an NFL player wouldn’t know what it feels like to be bullied, but I do. When I was a kid, classmates sometimes would pick on me and make fun of the gap between my front teeth. What they didn’t know is that my gap is like …
Read More »Pueblo City Schools, Pueblo, Colorado Safe Haven: Building Community Support
After a survey found that students didn’t feel safe in their Pueblo, Colorado community, the Safe Haven for Pueblo Bullying Victims Project stepped in to make a difference. The Safe Schools/Healthy Students group got help from more than 700 students to design posters denouncing bullying. They then reached out to …
Read More »Bullying Knows No Boundaries – Lessons Learned from the UK
The impact of bullying behavior is not confined to geographic boundaries. Negative impacts and lessons learned can be found across the world, not just in the United States. To share the work being done outside the United States, StopBullying.gov is honored to highlight the work of Ditch the Label in …
Read More »Giving Teachers Tools to Stop Bullying: Free Training Toolkit Now Available
Over the past three years, at our annual Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summits, we have heard the same call by educators-– teachers want to help stop bullying, but they don’t know how. Most try to help, but few receive training on how to do so. There are bullying prevention …
Read More »An Emotion Revolution in our Nation’s Schools
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence in partnership with Born This Way Foundation (founded by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta) are launching a national campaign, the Emotion Revolution, to learn more about how high school students currently feel in school, how they hope to feel, and what is …
Read More »Are You Up to the Challenge? Show Us How You’re More Than a Bystander
The Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention are looking for informative and entertaining videos that send a positive message to youth about the importance of being “more than a bystander” to bullying in their schools and communities. In August, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, called on America’s youth to …
Read More »The Importance of the Recommendations for Media Reporting on Bullying
Did you know experts created media guidelines and recommendations to use when covering or reporting on the topic of bullying? Do you know why these exist? Do we really even need them? These are questions that some people may answer yes to, but the reality is that there are many that don’t know …
Read More »Bullying Prevention Workshop Brings Together Leaders to Work Towards Solutions
Watch the Workshop – The full webcast of the workshop and speaker presentation slides is available here. An individually authored workshop summary detailing the research, discussions and activities will be shared later in the year. On April 9-10, 2014, practitioners, researchers, students, educators, and community members came together at the …
Read More »Why We Don’t Use the Word “Bully” to Label Kids
“That kid is a bully.” We have all heard someone utter these words at one time or another, but is it fair to label a child? The labels bully, victim, and target are used often by media, researchers and others to refer to children who bully others and children who …
Read More »Defending Childhood: Challenging Our Perceptions on Bullying
In 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder launched the Defending Childhood initiative to address children’s exposure—as victims and as witnesses—to violence. He hopes to change our perceptions of violence and abuse, make the topic an issue on the national level, and address how abuse and violence affect children. He understands that …
Read More »Effective Bullying Solutions: No One-Size-Fits-All Answer
Throughout the bullying prevention world, the phrase, “I have the solution to bullying!” is all too common. As attention to bullying has grown, so have the number of products and tools claiming to reduce or eliminate bullying in schools and communities. But do they work? This question may seem simple, …
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