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Study: Bullies and bullied more likely hit by crimeListen to Don Shelby, Don Shelby Show, WCCO News/Talk 830 and Julie Hertzog, PACER Center talk about bullying prevention. (RealPlayer is required to listen.)
Burlington (VT) Free Press–Stop Bullying Before Another Child is Hurt
Partners In Community Supports–Squaring Up to Bullying
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Parents Against Bullying
In a bullying situation, parents are their child’s best advocate—they are the persons most familiar with their child’s strengths, abilities, and vulnerabilities. Parents can be the most important factor in determining an effective intervention plan because they know their child best.
Kids Against Bullying Web site
The Kids Against Bullying Web site was developed to help elementary school children recognize bullying and respond to it in appropriate, effective ways. It is for all children who are bullied or who witness bullying, including children with disabilities.
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Kids Against Bullying Coloring Book
Bullying is no fun, but learning about it can be. PACER’s
coloring book gives parents and kids a great opportunity to talk about bullying while they have fun. Each page includes an important message about respecting others, valuing differences, and being a friend. Download these pages and discover how kids and crayons can help prevent bullying. Be sure to check out the “Tell Us Your Story” coloring contest on the last page and help your child become a Kid Against Bullying!
Publications
PACER offers bullying prevention resources, most of which are free to parents of children with disabilities. PACER’s newest handout is on the topic of cyberbullying, “Is your child being bullied in cyberspace?”
Where's Pip?
Pip, the hamster mascot of the Club Crew, loves to go to new places and meet new kids, you never know where Pip might show up. Pip might be found on the playground, in the classroom, or playing baseball.
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Additional Resources
View a site dedicated to the memory of Ryan Patrick Halligan and for all young people suffering in silence from the pain of bullying and having thoughts of suicide.
Does This Child Have a Friend?
Innovative social inclusion programs are reducing the social isolation of students with disabilities, ending harassment and stereotyping, and improving life opportunities. TOLERANCE.ORG, Teaching Tolerance magazine, Number 32, Fall 2007.
Parents of children with disabilities also may find assistance at the parent center located in their state. To find the parent center nearest you, visit Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers.
“Dear Colleague Letter” regarding harassment based on disability, from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) in the U.S. Department of Education
PACER joins The National Education Association (NEA)--Great Public Schools for Every Child--in its National Bullying Awareness Campaign. It is NEA's goal, with its National Bullying Awareness Campaign, to reduce, and eventually eradicate, bullying in America's public schools.
Visit PACER's other sites: National Parent Center Network (ALLIANCE) | Kids Against Bullying | Project C3 | FAPE Project | Minnesota SEACs
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