“We must be the change we wish to see in the world” - Mahatma GandhiAs a culture, we are focusing new attention on bullying. According to world-wide research, both mean peer behavior and the harm it causes can be reduced. There is little need to describe the impact of mean actions by peers. Youth who mistreat others frequently are more likely to become aggressive adults and to have criminal records in adulthood. Mistreated young people may grow up with diminished self-confidence and a sense of isolation and helplessness. Youth who witness mean behavior repeatedly are also affected. The resources on this site will lead you through an exploration of adult and peer interventions that work to minimize peer mistreatment and to reduce the harm it can cause.The interventions described on this website and in Stan Davis’s books, videos, and trainings are based on the work of many researchers in bullying prevention, including Norway's Dan Olweus, England's Smith and Sharp, the USA's Dorothea Ross, Canada's Wendy Craig and Debra Pepler, Australia's Ken Rigby, and on Stan Davis's forty-plus years of experience with children, families, and schools as a social worker and school counselor. In addition, these interventions are based on the input of more than 13,000 young people across the United States who participated in the Youth Voice Project survey conducted in 2009-2010 by Stan Davis and Dr. Charisse Nixon.Presenting practical research-based strategies for reducing bullying in schools"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college she attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt RESOURCES•May 2013 intensive seminar- two days in Maine•Advice for parents and guardians•Advice for youth•For schools- training, books, videos and surveys
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi
As a culture, we are focusing new attention on bullying.
According to world-wide research, both mean peer behavior
and the harm it causes can be reduced.
There is little need to describe the impact of mean actions by
peers. Youth who mistreat others frequently are more likely to
become aggressive adults and to have criminal records in
adulthood. Mistreated young people may grow up with
diminished self-confidence and a sense of isolation and helplessness. Youth
who witness mean behavior repeatedly are also affected. The resources on this
site will lead you through an exploration of adult and peer interventions that
work to minimize peer mistreatment and to reduce the harm it can cause.
The interventions described on this website and in Stan Davis’s books, videos,
and trainings are based on the work of many researchers in bullying prevention,
including Norway's Dan Olweus, England's Smith and Sharp, the USA's
Dorothea Ross, Canada's Wendy Craig and Debra Pepler, Australia's Ken
Rigby, and on Stan Davis's forty-plus years of experience with children, families,
and schools as a social worker and school counselor. In addition, these
interventions are based on the input of more than 13,000 young people across
the United States who participated in the Youth Voice Project survey conducted
in 2009-2010 by Stan Davis and Dr. Charisse Nixon.
Presenting practical research-based strategies for reducing bullying in schools
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home
- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.
Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in;
the school or college she attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works.
Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice,
equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination.
Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.
Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home,
we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
RESOURCES
•
May 2013
intensive
seminar-
two days in
Maine
•
Advice for
parents
and
guardians
•
Advice for
youth
•
For
schools-
training,
books,
videos and
surveys
