Keeping Kids Safe: Opportunities and Challenges in Bullying Prevention SUMMIT

Select speaker presentations and handouts are now available for download from the “Materials” tab of the event website located at http://www.wciconferences.com/BullyingSummit-VirtualMeeting/index.html or directly at http://www.wciconferences.com/BullyingSummit-VirtualMeeting/materials.html 

In addition, you may view an archived webcast of the Summit at

http://edstream.ed.gov/webcast/Play/900a4030cb1249ed99b5f8f693f4e57b1d

How Young People Can Powerfully Promote Positive Relations

Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand:
How Young People Can Powerfully Promote Positive Relations

More information and preview of resources at: http://www.embracecivility.org/be-a-friend-lend-a-hand/

 

Embrace Civility in the Digital Age’s research-grounded, youth-led program, Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand, promotes positive norms and teaches effective skills that encourages young people:

• To positively intervene when they witness bullying or other hurtful situations.
• Not to be hurtful and to make things better if they have been.
• To demonstrate self-confidence and resilience if someone is hurtful.

Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand incorporates strategies that focus on reinforcing positive peer norms and imparting effective skills. This program is appropriate for middle and high school aged young people. An important additional component is professional development resources for adults that provide current research-grounded insight into bullying and other hurtful behavior along with initial intervention strategies that support youth acquisition of positive norms and effective skills. The program has been designed to be used in schools and also a wide range of youth organizations, including after-school programs, youth organizations, religious organizations, and summer camps.

Key Lessons Taught:


The Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand program includes the following components. You may freely preview these components on the web site. 

• A reproducible Booklet for students that addresses hurtful behavior, being a helpful ally, reaching out to be kind, saying “stop,” reporting concerns, not being hurtful and remedying the harm, and a positive action plan to become more self-confident.
• A Survey that can be used to identify young people’s norms, skills, and current incident rates.
• A Slideshow for young people.
• A Statement of Personal Values document for young people to complete.
• A Youth Objectives document that is to be used in conjunction with the Survey, where the young people note current data and set forth positive objectives.
• A Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand set of recommended Activities that can be used in organizations that allow members to earn pins or badges.
• A Be a Friend ~ Lend a Hand AWESOME! design that can be used for paper awards, pins, or badges.
• A reproducible Adult Guide that provides the research basis for this program and sets forth recommendations for initial intervention approaches by adults directly working with youth.
• A 45 minute narrated slideshow video that covers the information provided in the Adult Guide that can be used for professional development. 

The Introductory Price for this entire program is $1.00/typical number of young people in the school or organization. (Group discounts are also available for schools or organizations with over 1,500 young people.) This is a one time fee that will provide ongoing access to, and use of, the materials, including any revisions.

Documentary - Frontline: Generation Like

“Send this Instead” app empowers kids

The “Send this Instead” app empowers kids giving them a voice when they are under pressure to send intimate images of themselves online. http://sendthisinstead.com/?page_id=76

Study finds 'sexting' linked to sex in middle school | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Middle school students who send sexually explicit text messages and photos to one another are more likely to have sex than those who don’t “sext,” a new study finds

A survey of young teens in Los Angeles found that 40% who’d sent explicit messages or photos said they’d been sexually active compared to just 5% of other kids with cellphones that could display text messages

“The surprise is that for younger kids -- 11- to 13-year-olds -- sexting is not an alternative to real-life sexual activity. It’s actually a part of it,” said study author Eric Rice, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Read more:

Study finds 'sexting' linked to sex in middle school | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Moral Combat: Do Violent Video Games Make Us Reflect On Morality?

Scholars have long debated whether playing violent video games can produce antisocial behaviors in players. Evidence has been mixed, at best, and often controversial. And youth violence has been steadily declining for decades in the United States despite the widespread proliferation of video games. A new study may help us understand why we're not seeing antisocial behaviors in-game translate to the real world. Rather than making players consider aggressive acts, such games may actually nudge them to think more morally.

Read more here.

Will work for internet access: What do you think?

What do you think about this. Will kids find another way around getting access? Will they resent the system? Or, will this replace money as an allowance and help kids to stay focused on their responsibilities? Could it also be that internet access is a basic necessity these days like food, water, and shelter, and should not be used as a reward? Comment below: