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Anti-Bullying

• Tools for Students
• Tools for Parents
• Tools for Educators
• Tools for Advocates
• Quiz
  How much do you know about bullying prevention?
• StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying.
• Project Seatbelt
  The mission of RFK Project SEATBELT is to create the conditions at home, at school, and in the community so that treating EVERYONE with respect becomes the norm – in other words, universal respect becomes as automatic as fastening a seat belt.
• Start Empathy
  Start Empathy, an initiative of Ashoka, is a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to building a future in which every child masters empathy. Start Empathy is not out to build a single program, curriculum, or silver-bullet fix. Rather, they work to unleash demand for empathy as a core 21st century skill – collaborating with social entrepreneurs, educators, parents, and key players in the media, business, and academic sectors to make empathy as essential as reading and math in early education.
• Born This Way Foundation
  The Born This Way Foundation is a movement started by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, to empower youth to create a kinder and braver world.
• The Bully Project
  The Bully Project is the website for the movie Bully, released in 2012. Resources can be found on the website to help parents and teachers foster discussion about the movie with their children and students.
• Delete Digital Drama
  Provides information on the Seventeen Magazine and ABC Family effort to end cyber bullying.
• Education.com
  The bullying information provided on Education.com is based on research and provides real-world solutions for teachers, parents, and students. A free e-book can be found on the site with a wealth of information on bullying.
• Pacer’s National Bullying Prevention Center
  Features information and resources for children, teens, parents and educators around bullying topics with a particular focus on students with disabilities. Their additional websites www.teensagainstbullying.org and www.kidsagainstbullying.org are designed for kids by kids and feature videos and art, games and activities, and developmentally appropriate information for kids about bullying.
• PREVNet (Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence)
  A network of researchers, organizations, and governments committed to stopping bullying. Features research-based strategies for parents, students, educators, and community members to prevent bullying and promote relationships. Provides downloadable, easily accessible handouts, manuals, and research summaries.
• Safe and Supportive Schools
  Provides tools and manuals, research briefs, and additional readings about topics within the broad areas of school engagement, environment, and safety. The “School Climate Measurement” portion of the website features a school climate measurement tool compendium.
• Stand for the Silent 
  Stand for the Silent is dedicated to reducing bullying and provides programs for schools on how to reduce bullying.
• STEPS
  Student Training & Education in Public Service
• StopBullying.gov
  StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on how kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and others in the community can prevent or stop bullying.
• Stories of Us
  A bullying prevention and intervention curriculum that includes film-based educational resources.
• Submit the Documentary
  Submit the Documentary is an informative film that illustrates the serious social phenomenon of cyberbullying confronting our children and their well-being. It features interviews from affected teens, parents of victims, educators, experts and law enforcement as they tackle this worldwide issue, while offering solutions to this complicated problem. The ultimate goal of the documentary and website is to become the center of education on cyberbullying awareness, support and solutions.
• The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
  Fosters social and emotional learning in schools by supporting an array of school-based programs. Features descriptions of social and emotional programs that promote conflict resolution and intercultural understanding. Sister site www.teachablemoment.org offers free lessons and activities for teachers to promote social and emotional learning.
• To This Day Video
  "My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways. Schools and families are in desperate need of proper tools to confront this problem. This piece is a starting point." – Shane
• Bravery Tips
  This site was developed by the National Association of School Psychologists and the National Council for Behavioral Health. It offers mental health resources and tips related to stress management, resiliency, bullying, suicide prevention, and building healthy relationships.

Anti-Bullying - Teachers

• Empowerment Initiative
  The Empowerment Initiative supports translational research designed to foster positive, accepting communities free from bullying and other negative behaviors. Research and outreach conducted through the Empowerment Initiative focus on identifying and addressing the complex personal, social and cultural factors underlying such behaviors, thereby advancing practical solutions to promote healthy relationships within families, schools and communities.
• Bully Free: It Starts with Me
  This National Education Association’s website is a resource that provides tips, research, and information on prevention and intervention training.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  The CDC has released a compendium of assessment tools for bullying.
• Cyberbullying Research Center
  Provides up-to-date, research-based information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Features cyberbullying research summaries and publications, resources about responding to cyberbullying situations, and a place to read and share personal stories of cyberbullying.
• Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
  Disseminates information on the benefits and importance of social and emotional learning. Provides resources related to selecting a social and emotional learning program at schools, and offers suggestions related to the training, funding, and assessment of such programs.
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2012
  Joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school and on the way to and from school. It presents detailed statistical data on the nature of crime in schools from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources.
• The National School Climate Center
  Helps schools integrate social and emotional learning with academic instruction. Features tools, and best practices for promoting and measuring positive school climate. Their “Bully Prevention” section provides information on topics like building a community of “Upstanders” and promoting student leadership.
• Safe and Supportive Schools
  Provides tools and manuals, research briefs, and additional readings about topics within the broad areas of school engagement, environment, and safety. The “School Climate Measurement” portion of the website features a school climate measurement tool compendium

Anti-Bullying - Parents

• Empowerment Initiative
  The Empowerment Initiative supports translational research designed to foster positive, accepting communities free from bullying and other negative behaviors. Research and outreach conducted through the Empowerment Initiative focus on identifying and addressing the complex personal, social and cultural factors underlying such behaviors, thereby advancing practical solutions to promote healthy relationships within families, schools and communities.
• Making Caring Common
  Seeks to help educators, parents, and communities raise children who are caring, respectful, and responsible toward others and their communities. Provides tips and tools inspired by the newest research and the wisdom of experience. Designed to help you promote social and emotional learning, prevent bullying and other forms of cruelty, and create cultures of caring and respect in schools.
• Autism Speaks
  The Autism Speaks organization has a page at their website to help inform families with autistic children about bullying and the steps they can take to face the issue.
• Bully Free: It Starts with Me
  This National Education Association’s website is a resource that provides tips, research, and information on prevention and intervention training.

Anti-Bullying Books

• And Words can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence
• Be Nice (Or Else!): And What’s In it for You
• Bullying in American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention
• Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools
• Bullying Prevention: Creating a Positive School Climate and Developing Social Competence
• Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools
• Dealing with the Difficult Parents in Your Child’s Life: Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads
• Handbook of Bullying in Schools: An International Perspective
• Homophobic Bullying: Research and Theoretical Perspectives
• Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
• Queen Bees & Wannabes
• Resilient Classrooms
• See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It
• Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
• The Parent’s Guide to Psychological First Aid: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Predictable Life Crises