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Bullying in Out-of-School Time Programs: Tips for Youth-Serving Professionals and Volunteers
This is a resource for people who work with youth out of school. Challenges and opportunities to bullying prevention are explored as well as prevention strategy suggestions.

Roles for Health and Safety Professionals in Bullying Prevention and Intervention
This fact sheet explains what some health professionals/organizations are doing to prevent bullying. This could be used to assist a school in getting organizations involved in an intervention.

State Laws Related to Bullyin Among Children and Youth
This fact sheet gives information about state laws related to bullying.

Working with Young People Who are Bullied: Tips for Mental Health Professionals
This fact sheet gives mental health professionals guidelines in helping a child that has been bullied.

Working with Young People Who Bully Others: Tips for Mental Health Professionals
This fact sheet gives mental health professionals guidelines in helping a child that bullies others. Principles of effective interventions and misdirected prevention techniques are shared.

Community-Based Bullying Prevention: Tips for Community Members
This document provides information on why and how interventions/strategies for preventing bullying need to be community-wide.

Warning Signs that a Child is Being Bullied
This is a link to a fact sheet about how to recognize if a child is being bullied and suggestions for parents of bullied children.

What Communities are Doing
This website gives the elements of successful community based interventions. Examples of community based interventions are shared.

Understanding Bullying Within the Camp Setting: Tips for Parents
This is a resource for parents who are concerned about bullying at camp.

Faith-Community Responses to Bullying Among Children and Youth
This information could be used in faith based newsletters to inform faith-communities about bullying and let them know how they can get involved in prevention strategies.

Ten Steps for Families to Stop Cyber Bullying
This website provides suggestions on how families can stop bullying over the internet.

The ABCs of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression Prevention and Intervention - Parents (Eng)
This is a fact sheet for parents that provides guidelines on what they can do to help both victims and bullies.

The ABCs of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression Prevention and Intervention - Parents (Span)
This is a fact sheet for Spanish speaking (Espanola) parents that provides guidelines on what they can do to help both victims and bullies.

The School Bully Can Take a Toll on Your Child's Mental Health
This is a link to a resource for parents with information about the mental health effects bullying can have on children. It includes some simple steps parents can take to empower and teach their children to deal with bullies.

Bullying at school: Advice for families
This is a resource for families of bullied children. Suggestions are provided for helping the child and working with the school to correct the problem.

Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age
This website provides some great information about cyber bullying.

Cyber Bullying Quick Reference Guide for Parents
This link provides information about cyber bullying prevention tips for parents to help keep their kids safe.

What to Do if Your Child is Being Bullied
This link provides a resource for parents of bullied children.

How to Talk with Educators at Your Child's School about Bullying: Tips for Parents of Bullied Children
This link provides tips for parents on how to talk with their child's school if he/she is being bullied.

PBS Kids Go: Parents/Teachers
This website has articles, games, journaling ideas, videos, resources, and lesson plans that can help parents and teachers address bullying. Parents can also print activities to do offline with their children including discussion questions, worksheets and puzzles. Some of the resources are in Spanish (Espanola)

Schools Must Deal with Students Who Use Cyberspace for Bullying
This link from the Ohio State Bar Association provides the answers to frequently asked questions regarding cyber-bullying.

What Parents Can Do About Childhood Bullying
This link contains an article by Marlene Snyder, PhD on how parents can recognize bullying and help stop it.

What Can I Do If My Child With A Disability Is Being Harassed In School?
This link provides a fact sheet from the Ohio Legal Rights Service on what to do if a disabled child is being harassed at school.

Bully Prevention
This website contains resources from the National Crime Prevention Council.

Bullying, Harassment, School-based Violence
This link provides a list of handouts on bullying, harassment, and school-based violence from the Safe Schools Coalition.

Students & School: Discipline, Suspension or Expulsion
This link provides resources from the Ohio Legal Services Ohio Law Library regarding discipline, suspension or expulsion issues.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
Website of the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center for professionals, parents and youth on youth violence prevention.

Resources & Related Links
This website provides resources from Ohio School Resource Officers Association

 


Ohio Safe Schools Project
The University of Toledo
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Toledo, OH 43606
robert.salem@utoledo.edu