AASD

*Press Release "Approximately 360,000 Children in PA Are Affected By Bullying Each Year" Article:

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/pa-senate-bill-number-71-the-antibullying-bill-needs-to-be-passed-by-the-house-to-protect-pa-children-from-bullies-and-being-bullied-35922.php

*Recent research in the United States and abroad has documented that bullying is a common and potentially damaging form of violence among children.  Gives relevance for the program:

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/jjbulletin/9804/bullying2.html

Helpful Websites:

* U.S. website for the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program:

http://www.clemson.edu/olweus/

* Anti-Bullying Network:  This website is chalk full of great resources:

http://www.antibullying.net/resourceswwwlinks.htm 

*Bullying themed website with activities:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/bully.shtml

*More website resources:

http://164.116.35.101/safe_civil/bullyingdocs.htm

http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/index.asp

http://www.goodcharacter.com/GROARK/Bullying.html

 http://4h.sdstate.edu/character/files/Kick-OffBullyPreventionActivities.pdf

* Information on what teachers can do about bullying:

http://www.jimwrightonline.com/pdfdocs/bully/bullyBooklet.pdf