Your article “Studies Probe ‘Ecology’ of Bullying” (May 19, 2010) reports researchers’ findings on the need for employing a multipronged approach in creating a school climate that effectively combats ...

We are currently in the 13th annual National Bullying Prevention Month campaign, initiated in 2006 by PACER. The purpose of the yearly month-long campaign is, of course, to prevent bullying. While ...

Seventh-grader Emma dreaded walking into the cafeteria each day. Classmates had been posting cruel comments about her appearance online for weeks, and lunch period felt like entering a war zone. Then ...

Remember DARE, Drug Abuse Resistance Education — the prevention program that took decades to fade despite repeated evidence it actually increased drug and alcohol abuse among schoolkids? Early ...

The largest trial of its kind in the U.K. has shown how a low-cost, structured, anti-bullying program can improve social dynamics in primary schools and reduce victimization. The year-long trial of ...

School bullying has been identified as harmful to students' mental health. Many studies have evaluated the effectiveness of bullying prevention programs, finding mixed results in general and no ...

Twenty percent of students in grades six through 12 have reported cases of bullying. The YWCA in McLean County, the Center for Prevention of Abuse, FamilyCore and Peoria Public Schools have programs ...

UB’s Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention has earned a $1.38 million grant to develop and test an approach to reduce bullying and sexual harassment in high schools. The three-year grant ...

GRADY COUNTY, Ga. (WCTV) - Deputies at the Grady County Sheriff’s Office and the Cairo Fire Department visited Eastside Elementary School on Wednesday as they rolled out a bullying prevention program.

Laramie County School District 1 is implementing a research-based suicide, bullying and violence prevention program called Sources of Strength. The program is peer-led and aims to give students the ...

Around 15% of Australian school students experience bullying in a school year. Being bullied increases the risk for ongoing depression and anxiety. All Australian states have policies to address ...

Yours truly has been predicting longer than anyone that our anti-bullying programs and campaigns are bound to fail. Seven years ago, I posted an article on my website explaining the reasons for the ...