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15+ Take Time to Listen, Make Time to Talk. About Bullying
The 15+ Make Time to Listen...Take Time to Talk campaign is based on the premise that parents who talk with their children about what is happening in their lives are better able to guide their children toward more positive, skill-enhancing activities and friendships. The campaign provides practical guidance for parents and caregivers on how to strengthen their relationship with their children by spending at least 15 minutes of daily, undivided time with them and focusing on them.
3 Bold Steps for School Community Change
Based on the lessons learned from the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, the toolkit cultivates an approach that has left a legacy of success in schools and communities. This toolkit will show you how partnerships with representatives from sectors including education, law enforcement, mental health, juvenile justice, children’s services, families, and faith-based associations can take Three Bold Steps to create positive lasting change among our nation’s students.
Bullying: Starting the Conversation
This newsletter provides guidance on how to talk to your children about bullying. It also offers a link to a companion pamphlet : Bullying is Not a Fact of Life
Bullying Prevention Campaign
This website is targeted at "tweens" with 12 educational, animated "webisodes" featuring characters who are involved in bullying and its prevention. The site describes bullying in language friendly to young people, and includes helpful information for kids and for adults. Web site available in Spanish.
Bullying: Dispelling Myths, Enhancing Prevention
This article provides an overview of bullying and its relationship with suicide. It also presents SAMHSA’s collaborative approach to bullying prevention, highlighting the Media Guidelines for Bullying Prevention, which media outlets can use when developing stories related to bullying to ensure that they reflect balanced and accurate coverage.
Bullying Prevention: 2015 Resource Guide
Bullying Prevention: 2015 Resource Guide (PDF, 20 pages) provides links to resources, publications, organizations, and programs that focus on bullying prevention. Each resource is accompanied by a link and description, and is organized into one of seven sections of the guide:
- Organizations and Websites
- Data, Definitions, and Research
- Programs, Campaigns, and Toolkits
- Policies, Laws, and Legislation
- Publications and Resources
- At-Risk Populations
- Bullying and Co-Occurring Issues
Bullying and Suicide: A Public Health Approach
A special online supplement from the Journal of Adolescent Health reports on the findings of an expert panel convened by the CDC to better understand the link between bullying and suicide-related behaviors.
Bullying Prevention Training Center
The StopBullying.gov Bullying Prevention Training Center offers multiple resources, including the Bullying Prevention Training Module and Community Action Toolkit and 11 new, audience-specific user guides, developed in collaboration with more than 40 partner organizations. These resources feature relevant statistics and best practices for a variety of readers, including parents, school administrators, and mental health providers.
Child Health USA
The Child Health USA Databook is an annual report of the health status, well-being and service needs of America's children and youth. Coalitions, program planners and policy makers can identify national trends by examining and comparing data from one year to the next. Indicators for youth, or adolescents, cover multiple issues, including childbearing, substance abuse, violence, mental health treatment, and mortality from traffic and firearms injuries. The section, Population Characteristics, provides information about poverty status and school dropouts. Each topic includes a written summary and at least one graph that clearly depicts key statistical facts.
College Senior Credits Supportive Relationships as Essential to Bullying Prevention
Whitney Dockrey, a 22-year-old senior at Georgetown University, participated as a youth panelist in a bullying prevention workshop convened in April 2014 by the Institute of Medicine. This blog post features her perspective on the importance of building and maintaining supportive relationships as a way to prevent and respond to bullying.
Girls Health
Girlshealth.gov is sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health, and is the "daughter" program of the National Women's Health Information Center (www.womenshealth.gov). Girlshealth.gov provides valuable information about ways girls can achieve a healthy lifestyle helping them to understand their body, mind, and spirit as they grow into adults.
Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
This document provides researchers, prevention specialists, and health educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences. Some researchers continue to examine the risk and protective factors associated with bullying experiences. Others are working to design, implement, and evaluate bully prevention interventions aimed at reducing bully victimization and perpetration, as well as increasing prosocial bystander involvement in bullying situations. The ability to measure bullying experiences broadly and completely is crucial to the success of these activities. This document represents a starting point from which researchers can consider a set of psychometrically sound measures for assessing self-reported incidence and prevalence of a variety of bullying experiences.
NIH-Funded Study: Bullying Decreases among Middle School and High School Students
Published in the American Journal of Public Health, a NIH-funded study found that bullying among students in grades six through 10 declined significantly between 1998 and 2010. A less dramatic decline in fighting among students was also observed. As part of this podcast, the study’s lead author explains the findings and their implications for policy and practice.
Overcoming Challenges through Perseverance and the Arts
This blog post features the perspective of Thomas, a young person diagnosed with Autism at age two, who experienced bullying throughout elementary and middle school and has used art to express his emotions and encourage and inspire others.
Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS)
The SS/HS Initiative is a unique Federal grant-making program designed to prevent violence and substance abuse among our nation's youth, School, and communities.
StopBullying.gov Tumblr Page
Created by StopBullying.gov, this Tumblr page features empowering messages that aim to influence teens to join the effort to stop bullying.
StopBullying.gov
This website provides articles, videos, tools, and other resources on bullying prevention.
Strengthening the AAPI Community Through New Bullying Prevention Efforts
This blog post illustrates the prevalence of bullying among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth and the work of the AAPI Bullying Prevention Task Force to proactively address bullying in the AAPI community.
Take Action Against Bullying
This publication from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is one module in a larger initiative to promote healthy child development and prevent youth and school-based violence (15+ Make Time to Listen Take Time to Talk - link to http://store.samhsa.gov/product/15-Make-Time-To-Listen-Take-Time-To-Talk...). It offers a quick description of what bullying is, and then offers signs that your child is a victim of bullying. You can also learn about signs that depict if your child is a bully, and read tips to prevent children from becoming bullies and victims.
Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere
A national initiative to prevent youth violence before it starts. STRYVE's vision is safe and healthy youth who can achieve their full potential as connected and contributing members of thriving, violence-free families, schools, and communities. Their website includes training materials focused on understanding youth violence, the public health approach, and creating a plan along with a wealth of other resources and information.
The Connections between Bullying and Family Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Dating Violence
This blog post describes the relationship, as established in research, between bullying others in early adolescence, and later perpetration of sexual harassment and forms of teen dating violence. It also highlights tools and resources, including programs like SafeDates and Dating Matters, and events sponsored by GLSEN, that can help prevent and address bullying and teen dating violence.
The Relationship Between Bullying and Suicide: What We Know and What It Means for Schools
This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention, provides school administrators, teachers and school staff with the most current research findings about the relationship between bullying and suicide among school-aged youth and action-oriented, evidence-based suggestions to prevent and control bullying and suicide-related behavior in schools.
Videos and Animated GIF About Labels Bring the Words of Teens to Life
StopBullying.gov launched two new videos, Labels Don't Define You and Labels Don't Define You 2, and an animated GIF that address the issue of labels and how words can be harmful. This project is a result of regular engagement and collaboration with one of the main audiences for StopBullying.gov: teens. Spread the word by sharing one or all of these animated pieces with your audiences.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
Share With Youth: Promoting Bullying Prevention Awareness in the Sikh American Community
On June 8, 2015, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the Sikh Coalition held a Bullying Prevention Sikh Google Hangout. As part of her capstone project in the E3! Ambassadors Program, White House intern Naureen Singh organized the discussion to educate Sikh American youth, parents, and community organizers about the resources available from the federal government to combat bullying.