Bullying: Links

The following links are to external resources that teachers may find useful for lesson extension, student exploration and expansion of personal knowledge on this topic. Please contact us to report any broken links.

The following resources are categorized into General Bullying Resources and Cyberbullying Resources.

General Bullying Resources

Alberta Education: Safe and Caring Schools Initiative
http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/SafeSchools/
"A safe and caring school is an environment wherein all are accorded respect and dignity, and their
safety and well-being are paramount considerations."

Anti-Bullying Centre; Trinity College Dublin
http://www.abc.tcd.ie/

Anti-Bullying Alliance [check out the resources section]
http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/

Borris Anti-Bullying Campaign
http://www.geocities.com/borrisvs/
This is an example of a student created bullying website created as part of a class project.

Be Web Aware: Cyberbullying Page
http://www.bewebaware.ca/english/CyberBullying.aspx
A Canadian web awareness page oriented at a variety of issues for a broad spectrum of age groups

Bullying.org
http://www.bullying.org/
A collaborative Canadian bullying project.

Bully Free Alberta
http://www.bullyfreealberta.ca/
This Government of Alberta website has a variety of resources for teachers, parents and youth including the following links to projects directed towards youth:

B-Free
b-free.ca
This bullying website targeted at youth contains information, an online quiz, and stories by youth.

S-Team Heroes
http://www.teamheroes.ca/
Children can practice dealing with bullying in a variety of contexts through this online game.

24 Hour Bullying Prevention Helpline: Alberta
1-888-456-2323

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Bullying prevention: The Heart of the Matter: Alberta Education
http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/charactered/bullprevent.asp
This resource is part of Alberta Education's character education resource materials.

BullyingCanada.ca
http://www.bullyingcanada.ca/
A youth created and operated anti-bullying website

BeatBullying
http://www.beatbullying.org/

Bullying UK
http://www.bullying.co.uk/

Bullying No Way
http://www.bullyingnoway.com.au/
A website produced by the Australian education authorities

Bullying in Schools and What to Do About it
http://www.education.unisa.edu.au/bullying/
An informative website by Dr Ken Rigby, University of South Australia
The following video excerpt is a brief (8min) but good overview of bullying related issues
http://www.education.unisa.edu.au/bullying/videoexcerpt.htm#

Canadian Children Rights Council: bullying information page
http://www.canadiancrc.com/Bullying.htm

Canadian Children's Advertisers
http://cca-kids.ca/kids/who/index.html

This public service announcement encourages kids to speak up about bullying. http://cca-kids.ca/psa/wmv/Tell_Someone.mpg. The Commercials section has other resources that may be useful for classroom discussion. http://cca-kids.ca/kids/commercials/index.html

CBCLearning
http://www.cbclearning.ca/
Check your local school library or resource distribution system for the resources available here.
Also, visit the CBC bullying backgrounder
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bullying/index.html

Center For Children and Families in the Justice System
http://www.lfcc.on.ca/bully.htm
This is the center's bullying information page and there is also a link to their Teens Hurting Teens
study.

Childline
http://www.childline.org.uk/Bullying.asp

Childrens' BBC Bullying Page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/bullying/default.stm

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The Canadian Public Health Association
Assessment Toolkit for Bullying Harassment and Peer Relations at School
HTML http://acsp.cpha.ca/antibullying/
PDF http://acsp.cpha.ca/antibullying/english/backinfo/Assessment_Toolkit.pdf
This is a comprehensive assessment program than can be an integral part of a new or existing school wide bullying program.

Department for Children, Schools and Families: Don't suffer in Silence
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/bullying/
The Teacher section includes a teaching resource pack and online videos

iamsafe.ca
http://www.iamsafe.ca
This site contains a variety of bullying information and resources. The News section contains an
archive of their newsletters and the Resources section directs you to a range of different resources from
books, to film to research .

Kill Thinking
http://killthinking.com/
This site was created by Joel Kornek, a victim of the Dawson College school shooting. It contains frank information, reflections and discussions on social emotional issues that affect youth. Many of the materials presented here may be appropriate for directed classroom discussion or related activities. The site contains many user submitted stories and discussion boards. Previewing the material in advance is recommended.

No Bully
http://www.nobully.org.nz/

No More Bullies
http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/nomorebullies/
This is a National Film Board of Canada short with a bullying theme. This site has a downloadable teachers guide for use with the film http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/nomorebullies/techersguide.pdf. This film is part of the Show Peace: Conflict Resolution for Everyday Life Series http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/showpeace/serie.php

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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
http://www.oecd.org/
Visit the OECD website and search the term “bullying” to retrieve a variety of reports and
presentations.

Parent's Primer on School Bullying: Reader's Digest
http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2001/10/bullying.html
This overview on bullying for parents also links to a question and answer forum at the end of the
article.

Promting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network (PREVNET)
http://prevnet.ca/
This is a coalition of Canadians concerned about bullying sponsored by The Networks of Centres of Excellence, Queen’s University, and York University. The site contains a variety of reserach toolkits and resources.

Public Safety Canada
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/serv/srch/search-eng.aspx?q=bullying
This search at Public Safety Canada links to a variety of their bullying resources.

Safe Canada: Bullying Information
http://www.safecanada.ca/topic_e.asp?category=28
A Government of Canada resource. Primarily links to resources by category.

The Society For Safe and Caring Schools and Communities.
http://www.sacsc.ca/
This site carries a number of lessons and activities in the resources section for Elementary and
Secondary students as well as Web Based Micro Workshops for teachers. Ther are a number of usefull bullying focused resources, guides, booklets, presentations and scripts on this resource page http://www.sacsc.ca/Resources_Bullying_Tips.htm

Talk Helps: Family Service Canada
http://www.talk-helps.com/
This site walks kids through understanding and dealing with bullying from a variety of points of view
from bully to bystander.

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Cyber Bullying

Cyberbullying
www.cyberbullying.ca
Cyberbullying information from bullying.org's www.cyberbullying.ca website. The following brief is a PDF information brief http://www.cyberbullying.ca/pdf/Cyberbullying_Information.pdf

Digizen.org
http://www.digizen.org/
A digital citizenship website from Childnet International http://www.childnet.com/ focussing on social networks and cyberbullying

NetBullies
http://www.netbullies.com
"Protecting kids form each other online"

Further reading:

Making a Difference in Bullying a paper by Debra Pepler and Wendy Craig
available at http://psyc.queensu.ca/~craigw/makediff.pdf. A more extensive list of reading is available from the Bullying Lab Website http://psyc.queensu.ca/~craigw/Publication.htm at Queens University.

Wikipedia: Canadian Law Category
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_law

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