National Partners

PACER gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the many national nonprofit organizations that raise awareness of bullying prevention. Partners include organizations that reach a nationwide audience and have a focus on bullying prevention, child and youth, disability or education issues. Partners support and promote the activities of National Bullying Prevention Month on their social media channels, enewsletters, and printed materials.

Become a Champion Against Bullying 

Nonprofits, schools, and community groups that serve local and statewide communities are invited to “Become Champions Against Bullying”.

2012 National Partners

National PTA
National Education Association
American Federation of Teachers
School Social Work Association of America
National Rural Education Association
National Association of State Boards of Education
National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth
National Association of School Psychologists	NASP supports safe and supportive conditions for learning for all students. Various legislative, practice initiatives, and resources that address bullying prevention are available on the NASP website.
National Network of Partnership Schools
BullyBust: Promoting a Community of Upstanders	BullyBust provides free research-based tools and resources for educators, youth, and parents to help prevent bullying. Our Upstander Alliance Network (www.bullybust.org/upstander) brings together schools nationwide to promote positive behavior, highlight successful student-led upstander efforts, and mobilize the entire community with concrete resources throughout the school year to prevent harmful teasing, harassment, and bullying in our schools.
GLAAD	Millions of Americans wear purple on Spirit Day as a sign of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth and to speak out against bullying. Spirit Day was started in 2010 by teenager Brittany McMillan as a response to the young people who had taken their own lives. Observed annually, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, media professionals and celebrities wear purple, which symbolizes spirit on the rainbow flag. Getting involved is easy -- participants are asked to simply "go purple" on October 19th as we work to create a world in which LGBT teens are celebrated and accepted for who they are. Take the Spirit Day pledge at glaad.org/spiritday
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network
National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE)
American School Counselor Association
Prevent Child Abuse America
American Council for School Social Work
Public Education Network
National Association of Peer Program Professionals	notices in monthly member newsletters; email blasts to members
The Bully Project	The Bully Project partnered with PACER for Lee Hirsch’s documentary “Bully,” which offers educators, students, families and individuals the tools they need to address bullying in schools. We are also promoting UNITY Day on our social media channels, as well as in our newsletter.
Learning Disabilities Association of America
American Association on Health and Disability
Advocates for Victims of Abuse
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
National Tourette Syndrome Association
Council for Exceptional Children
National Down Syndrome Congress	NDSC will be sharing information on National Bullying Prevention Month with its members and affiliated local and regional organizations.
Described and Captioned Media Program	http://www.dcmp.org/ai/bullying/. This web page overviews our assistance. Our offerings are unique, being geared to the deaf/blind, with captioned and described educational videos.
The Great American NO BULL Challenge	The Great American NO BULL Challenge is a social action organization that uses the power of social media, music and the magic of filmmaking to inspire 25 million middle and high school students to create films that speak to the importance of digital responsibility. Our goal is to use these socially driven documentary-style films and PSA’s as a means to bring about social change on a global basis.
Committee for Children	Celebration of Unity Day on Wednesday, October 10, 2012. Exhibiting at IBPA Conference in Kansas City, Mo on November 5-6, 2012. Free activities for bullying prevention in our online community: http://www.cfchildren.org/community
Congressional Anti-Bullying Caucus	Congressman Honda will be working with a State Assembly member and a school in his district to coordinate a screening of “Bully” for the school’s entire 7th grade class. The students will be bused to a local theater and will watch the movie as a group, and afterwards will fill out “pledge cards”, stating what action they will take to prevent bullying at their school and in their community.

2011 National Partners

National PTA	Connect for Respect
National Education Association	New campaign against bullying "Bully Free: It Starts With Me"
American Federation of Teachers
School Social Work Association of America
National Rural Education Association (NREA)
National Association of State boards of Education
National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth	Published Bullying in the Workplace Information Brief in partnership w/PACER.
National Association of School Psychologists	NASP provides handouts on bullying prevention and actively advocates to promote legislation to reduce bullying in schools.
National Network of Partnership Schools
BullyBust, by the National School Climate Center (NSCC)	BullyBust is focused on providing concrete bully prevention resources that support students and adults in transforming their school into a community of upstanders who collectively take a stand against bullying. This year, we are launching the Upstander Alliance, which will empower youth to create student teams that can work together with the adults at school to mobilize their entire community in bully prevention/ awareness efforts.
GLADD	During National Bullying Prevention Month, GLAAD will be launching anti-LGBT bullying PSAs starring celebrities including Naya Rivera and Vinny from Jersey Shore. Starting October 12, GLAAD will have resource kits available for parents, teachers and students with ways to speak out against anti-LGBT bullying at GLAAD.org.
GLSEN	GLSEN works with educators, policy makers, community leaders and students on the urgent need to address anti-LGBT behavior and bias in schools. GLSEN strives to protect students from bullying and harassment, to advance comprehensive safe schools laws and policies, to empower principals to make their schools safer, and to build the skills of educators to teach respect for all people
National Organizations for Youth Safety
National Association of State Directors of Special Education
Prevent Child Abuse America
American Council for School Social Work	We have already begun to highlight October as National Bullying Prevention Month with this week's issue of the newsletter. ACSSW will continue to provide our readers with links, resources, and reading materials on anti-bullying, and will promote PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center.
American School Counselor Association
Public Education Network
The National Council on Independent Living
National Association of Peer Program Professionals
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI)
Northeast Center for Youth and Families, Tri-County Schools	Tri-County Schools will be participating in PACER's UNITY DAY, as staff and students will be wearing or representing the color orange on October 12, 2011. TCS will also be providing our students with information on cyberbullying, cyber safety, and personal publishing. Part of the mission of Tri-County Schools is to provide a safe, accepting, and tolerant environment for our students to learn and grow.
American Association on Health and Disability	National Bullying Prevention announcements with AAHD's 4,500 public health professionals focused on disability.
National Autism Association
Advocates for Victims of Abuse	Raising community awareness and education about bullying and bystander prevention.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
National Tourette Syndrome Association	Action Alert-writing campaign
TASH
Council for Exceptional Children	CEC is delighted to partner with PACER. We have many resources helpful to combatting bullying -- click here for more information
Described and Captioned Media Program	Children who have a physical, sensory, or intellectual disability are at an increased risk of bullying. The DCMP has recently captioned this Bullying Prevention Month video. Also, we are making available special bullying tip sheets for parents of blind children and deaf children And there is more! Visit our special Web Page with captioned and described media resources.
No Bully	We will raise awareness about National Bullying Prevention Month by mentioning it in our October newsletter.
Committee for Children	As the creators of Steps to Respect, the only school-based bullying prevention program to show positive results in a U.S. study, we support Bullying Prevention Month every year through our Web site, online community, and e-newsletter. Thank you, PACER, for your wonderful work!
The Golden Rule Pledge	We will be raising awareness during the month with at least one event focusing on the Golden Rule.