Bullying

Professional Resource Brief

Websites

• American Psychological Association: Bullying
  Resources for parents, teachers, and students to help identify and prevent bullying, information about how to get help for individuals being bullied, and a psychologist locator. 
  
  
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV): 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)'s Youth Violence Prevention: Bullying.
  Provides definitions, facts and statistics, information on risk and protective factors, prevention strategies, and environmental design methods, with links to resources on strategies and approaches including effective school-based skill-building programs. Youth Violence is also a featured topic.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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. Also includes links to programs to engage school communities during national or year-round events.
  
  
• Institute of Behavioral Science: 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. University of Colorado Boulder.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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 examples, materials, presentations, publications, and videos 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: Professional Resource Brief. November 2014. Updated May 2020, November 2024

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.