Parent Toolkit

Guide for Parents – HEAR

Making Caring Common

http://sites.gse.harvard.edu/making-caring-common

Seeks to help educators, parents, and communities raise children who are caring, respectful, and responsible toward others and their communities. Provides tips and tools inspired by the newest research and the wisdom of experience. Designed to help you promote social and emotional learning, prevent bullying and other forms of cruelty, and create cultures of caring and respect in schools.

Empowerment Initiative

http://empowerment.unl.edu

The Empowerment Initiative supports translational research designed to foster positive, accepting communities free from bullying and other negative behaviors. Research and outreach conducted through the Empowerment Initiative focus on identifying and addressing the complex personal, social and cultural factors underlying such behaviors, thereby advancing practical solutions to promote healthy relationships within families, schools and communities.

Stopbullying.gov

http://www.stopbullying.gov

StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on how kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and others in the community can prevent or stop bullying.

Considerations for Successful Counterspeech

Considerations for Successful Counterspeech (PDF)

This research-based guide provides practical strategies that you can share with students to empower them to successfully counter online hate and harassment.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/bullycompendium-a.pdf

The CDC has released a compendium of assessment tools for bullying.

Bravery Tips

http://braverytips.org

This site was developed by the National Association of School Psychologists and the National Council for Behavioral Health. It offers mental health resources and tips related to stress management, resiliency, bullying, suicide prevention, and building healthy relationships.

Submit the Documentary

http://www.submitthedocumentary.com

Submit the Documentary is an informative film that illustrates the serious social phenomenon of cyberbullying confronting our children and their well-being. It features interviews from affected teens, parents of victims, educators, experts and law enforcement as they tackle this worldwide issue, while offering solutions to this complicated problem. The ultimate goal of the documentary and website is to become the center of education on cyberbullying awareness, support and solutions.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2016

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2017/2017064.pdf

 Joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school and on the way to and from school. It presents detailed statistical data on the nature of crime in schools from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources.

Books/Readings

• And Words can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence (2002). By James Garbarino and Ellen deLara. The Free Press.
• Be Nice (Or Else!): And What’s In it for You (2004). By Winn Claybaugh. Laguna Beach. CA:Von Curtis Publishing.
• Bullying in North American Schools, 2nd edition. Edited by Dorothy L. Espelage & Susan M. Swearer, (2011). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Bullying in Schools: How Successful can Interventions Be? Edited by Peter K. Smith, Debra Pepler, and Ken Rigby (2004). Cambridge University Press.
• Bullying Prevention: What Parents Need to Know. (2013). By Wendy Craig, Debra Pepler, & Joanne
  Cummings. Quickfind Books.
• Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools. Edited by Maurice Elias, & Joseph Zins, (2002). The Haworth Press, Inc.
• Dealing with the Difficult Parents in Your Child’s Life: Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads (2006). By Rosalind Wiseman. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.
• Homophobic Bullying: Research and Theoretical Perspectives (2011). By Ian Rivers. Oxford University Press.
• Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (2002). By Rachel Simmons. New York, NY: Harcourt, Inc.
• Queen Bees & Wannabes (2002). By Rosalind Wiseman. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.
• See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It (2006). By James Garbarino. New York, NY: The Penguin Press.
• Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and
  Empathy (2013). Emily Bazelon. New York, NY: Random House.
• The Parent’s Guide to Psychological First Aid: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Predictable Life Crises (2011). Edited by Gerald P. Koocher & Annette M. La Greca. Oxford University Press.