Bullying

Professional Resource Brief

Websites

• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV): Bullying Prevention. Bullying prevention and intervention tips for students, parents, and schools. Includes a summary of Colorado's legislation on bullying and a sample school board policy on bullying prevention and education.
  
  Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. Registry of evidence-based positive youth development programs designed to promote the health and well-being of children and teens and reduce negative behaviors. Includes criteria for selection as a model or promising program and publications about replicating model programs.
  
  Safe Communities ~ Safe Schools (SCSS). Planning guide, assessment tools, fact sheets, and other materials to assist schools with creating and maintaining a positive and welcoming school climate, free of drugs, violence, intimidation, and fear.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Prevent Bullying.
  
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC): Youth Violence. Program information, data, assessment tools, definitions, and resources that describe risk and protective factors, consequences, prevention strategies, environmental design methods, and the translation of research into practice. Bullying research is a featured topic. Additional resources include
  
  
  • Bullying surveillance among youths: Uniform definitions for public health and recommended data elements, Version 1.0. (2013).
    
    
  • Measuring bullying victimization, perpetration, and bystander experiences: A compendium of assessment tools. (2011).
    
    
  • Relationship between bullying and suicide: What we know and what it means for schools. (2014).
    
    
  • Understanding bullying. (2013).
    
    
• Children's Safety Network (CSN): Bullying Prevention. Resources and tools about preventing bullying in schools, communities, and online. Includes a summary of an environmental scan of state public health agency involvement in bullying prevention and articles about state efforts to prevent bullying. CSN provides technical assistance to states to increase their capacity to address childhood injuries and violence.
  
  Social media and cyberbullying: Implementation of school-based prevention efforts and implications for social media approaches. (2013).
  
  
• Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Resources to support school gay-straight alliances, teacher-training tools, contact information for local GLSEN chapters, and other materials for families and educators to provide a more in-depth understanding of how to address anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender bias in their schools and to make schools safer for all students. Initiatives include
  
  No Name-Calling Week. Planning materials, lesson plans, and other resources for this annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an ongoing dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities.
  
  
• Office of Justice Programs: CrimeSolutions.gov. Research on the effectiveness of programs and practices as reviewed and rated by expert reviewers to provide practitioners and policy makers with information about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. To identify effective and promising programs and practices, type bullying in the Keyword field of the search form and click on Search to get your results.
  
  
• PACER Center: National Bullying Prevention Center. Classroom activity ideas and tools, video clips, fact sheets, and a blog for educators and families about bullying, with a special focus on children with disabilities. Features separate websites for school-age children and adolescents. Some fact sheets are available in Spanish and Somali.
  
  
• Safe Schools Coalition (SSC). Curricula, lesson plans, guidelines, Spanish-language resources, and other materials for education and health professionals, parents, and students to reduce bias-based bullying and violence in schools and to help schools better meet the needs of sexual minority adolescents and of children and adolescents with sexual minority parents or guardians.
  
  
• Southern Poverty Law Center: Teaching Tolerance. Articles, classroom strategies and activities, teaching kits, and other educational resources to help create a school environment that is respectful and culturally sensitive.
  
  
• StopBullying.gov. Facts about bullying awareness, prevention, and intervention; research and program information; training modules; and a community action toolkit to help local leaders build a coordinated, unified approach to preventing bullying. Cyberbullying; anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender bullying; and bullying behavior toward youth with special health care needs are among the issues addressed. View state anti-bullying laws and policies and key components in state anti-bullying laws. Includes resources for children, adolescents, parents, educators, and community advocates in English and Spanish.
  
  
• Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS): Bully Prevention. Bullying prevention manuals for elementary and middle schools and a white paper about using schoolwide PBIS to prevent bullying behavior.
  

Related MCH Digital Library Resources

• Adolescent Violence Prevention professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
• Bullying bibliography
• Dating Violence Among Adolescents resource brief
• Suicide Prevention resource brief
  

Bullying: Resource Brief. (November 2014).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Digital Library.
Reviewers: Lauren Agoratus, M.A., Family Voices and Family-to-Family Health Information Resource Center at the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of N.J.; Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Digital Library; Judi Siegel, L.I.C.S.W., Children's Hospital Boston; Sandy Swan, M.L.S., M.P.H., C.H.I.S., Phil Johnson Historic Archives and Research Library.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Digital Library.