Washington, DC – For your convenience, below are several prominent and helpful resouces on Anti-Bullying efforts around the nation. If you have other resources which should be added to this list, please contact Fayzan Gowani in my DC office.

Toolkits:

Below you will find several key anti-bullying toolkits developed through a collaboration of experts and federal agencies. These toolkits utilize two approaches that are critical to preventing and addressing bullying behavior:

• First, they take an active but flexible approach. Rather than silencing negative speech— which only deals with the symptom, not the root cause— these resources encourage combating negative speech with better speech by generating an organic, fruitful conversation. They promote techniques to create a positive climate in our nation’s schools, school buses and communities where all students are safe and respected.
• Second, the toolkits emphasize the value of involvement of others, including media, businesses, health and safety experts, and community leaders. To bring in multiple unique perspectives is to recognize and reinforce the understanding that bullying affects everyone.

The Classroom Teacher Training and School Bus Drivers’ Training can be found on the Department of Education’ s Safe and Supportive Technical Assistance Center’s website http://safesupportiveschools.ed.gov/index.php?id=9&eid=436.

The Youth Leaders’ Toolkit be found online at: http://www.stopbullying.gov/resources-files/youth-leader-toolkit.pdf

The Community Action Toolkit can be found here:http://www.stopbullying.gov/prevention/in-the-ommunity/community-action-planning/index.html

General Bullying: 

Stop Bullying:

http://www.stopbullying.gov/

Violence Prevention Works:

http://www.violencepreventionworks.org/

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:

http://www.aacap.org/cs/2012_press_releases/aacap_draws_attention_to_issue_of_bullying

Team Up To Stop Bullying:

http://www.sears.com/teamup

Common Sense Media Cyberbullying Kit:

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/cyberbullying-toolki

Common Sense Media Cyberbullying Video:

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/cyberbullying-educator-toolkit

LGBT-specific Resources: 

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network:

http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays National:

http://community.pflag.org/

The Trevor Project:

http://www.thetrevorproject.org/

It Gets Better:

http://www.itgetsbetter.org/

Disability Bullying: 

            American Association of People with Disabilities:

http://www.aapd.com/

            Pacer Center:

http://www.pacer.org/

            National Center on Secondary Education and Transition:

http://ncset.org/

Workplace Bullying:

Workplace Bullying Institute:

http://www.pacerkidsagainstbullying.org/html/

No Workplace Bullies:

http://www.noworkplacebullies.com/

School Bullying:

Pacer Center:

http://www.pacerkidsagainstbullying.org/html/

No Bully:

http://www.nobully.com/

Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere:

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/STRYVE/index.html

Coalition for Children:

http://www.safechild.org/new/

Elder Bullying:

National Center on Elder Abuse:

http://www.ncea.aoa.gov/

National Institute of Justice:

http://nij.gov/topics/crime/elder-abuse/welcome.htm

Online Bullying:

Cyber bullying Resource Center:

http://www.cyberbullying.us/

Wired Safety:

http://wiredsafety.org/

PFLAG National (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

http://community.pflag.org/