WHAT IS IT ?
The Safe Schools Facts Sheet (PDF document) summarizes what a student can do if they are being bullied. Additionally, the guide offers strategies for the prevention of being bullied, how to avoid bullying situations, and how you can help a victim of bullying. The guide is written for students who are being bullied or know someone who is a victim of bullying.
HOW DO YOU USE IT ?
This guide is to be used as a resource for elementary and middle-school aged students who have been victims of bullying. The guide gives specific suggestions of what a victim should and should not do after being bullied. Additional information is given about how to prevent future bullying and what to do to help someone else who is being bullied. Additionally, teachers or parents could use this site as a guide for having a discussion with a child who is being bullied.
WHEN DO YOU USE IT?
This information should be used when a child has informed his/her parent that they have been a victim of bullying or that a peer has been the victim of bullying.
WHY DO YOU USE IT?
This guide should be used to offer specific, concrete actions that a child can take when confronted with a bullying situation.
WHO DO YOU INVOLVE?
A parent could use this resource in collaboration with a teacher to share specific actions they have encouraged their child to take if they are confronted by a bully.
COLLABORATION
Counselor: A counselor should use this as a reference to help provide students with strategies for avoiding being bullied and for actions to take if bullying is witnessed.
Parent: A parent could use this guide as a reference to help provide a child with strategies for avoiding being bullied and for actions to take if bullying is witnessed.
CREDIBILITY
This guide is put out by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence coming out the University of Colorado at Boulder as a part of the Safe Communities ~ Safe Schools Initiative introduced in the fall of 1999.