Highlighted Resources

Bullying in Schools: An Overview
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has released Bullying in Schools: An Overview. It discusses the results of three studies conducted in 2007 at the National Center for School Engagement, and compares these results with those from a Swedish study. The authors conclude that victimization in the form of bullying can distance students from learning. Schools can overcome this negative effect if they adopt strategies that engage students in their work, creating positive learning environments that produce academic achievement.

Highmark Foundation Bullying Prevention Institute
To afford professional development and educational opportunities to school personnel and other professionals. To support those who are committed to reducing the incidence of bullying behaviors in Pennsylvania schools.

National Bullying Prevention Campaign: Take A Stand. Lend A Hand. Stop Bullying Now!
Stop Bullying Now is a website for children and adults developed by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau in partnerships with many individuals and organizations.

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program is a comprehensive, school-wide program designed for use in elementary, middle, or junior high schools. It's goals are to reduce and prevent bullying problems among school children and to improve peer relations at school. The program has been found to reduce bullying among children, improve the social climate of classrooms, and reduce related antisocial behaviors, such as vandalism and truancy.

Parent's Guide to Facebook
This guidebook was created by the co-directors of ConnectSafely.org to help parents understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely. With it, parents will be better informed and able to communicate with their young Facebook users. That's important because 1) if something goes wrong, we want our children to come to us and 2) as the Internet becomes increasingly social and mobile, a parent’s guidance and support are ever more key to young people’s well-being in social media and technology.

Readiness Series to Implement Comprehensive School Violence Programs
Center for Safe Schools, through funding provided by the Highmark Foundation, offers the Readiness Series to Implement Comprehensive School Violence Programs online course.

• Bullies & Victims by Suellen & Paula Fried
• Bullies, Targets and Witnesses: Helping Children Break the Pain Chain by Suellen Fried
• Bullying At School by Dan Olweus
• Bully Free Classroom by Allan Beane
• Bully-Proofing Your School by Carla Garrity
• Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying by Cheryl Dellasega & Charisse Nixon
• Helping Kids To Handle Conflict, www.ncpc.org
• No Bullying Allowed, www.thesecondmile.org
• Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons
• Quit it! A Teacher's Guide on Teasing and Bullying for Use with Students in Grades K-3 by Merle Froschl, Barbara Sprung, Nancy Mullin-Rindler
• Say Something by Peggy Moss