I wanted to profile an amazing anti-bullying resource that is available to help any student who is a victim of bullying, any student that witnesses another student getting bullied, and any school that needs help addressing bullying in their school! This website, while Canadian, offers a lot of extra resources, links, helpful advice, real contacts for students getting bullied and how to MAKE IT STOP! Anyone can report bullying (cyber, or face to face) anonymously to this website and they will follow up on anything reported to them, by getting in contact with your school. Their mission statement is:
STOP A BULLY strives to promote and enhance social wellness among youth by empowering them to address bullying. STOP A BULLY is committed to providing any student, parent or educator opportunity to report bullying and cyberbullying in a safe and anonymous manner by giving them an effective online reporting system. STOP A BULLY aims to enhance and foster a schools ability to address bullying incidents in a proactive and timely manner by providing detailed reports of bullying incidents, as well as education and prevention strategies.
They provide many services and resources to help any student, parent or educator dealing with bullies and the effect of bullying in their schools. They can provide:
- safe and anonymous reporting of bullying
- help understand what bullying is and what it might look like
- assist schools to become proactive in preventing bullying from even starting
- encourage and engage students in helping fight bullying at their own schools
- provide anti-bullying materials for any school that would want them
- are available to help ANY Canadian student who might be experiencing bullying and needs help.
Another service Stop A Bully provides is to help understand what bullying can look like and the many forms it comes in. They have created this graphic that shows how many different ways bullying occurs.
So, please, take a few moments to check out this fantastic website and hopefully, if we all work together to understand bullying, what it is, what it looks like and how we can avoid it, one day we won’t have to report bullies anymore as they will have become extinct!