CENTER CITY, Minn., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week (Oct. 21 - 27, 2007), Hazelden Publishing is releasing a free, online toolkit for parents and family caregivers to help them end bullying for children.
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The free toolkit contains comprehensive, downloadable tip sheets including:
-- What Is Bullying?
-- Tips for Parents: What to Do If Your Child Is Being Bullied
-- Tips for Parents: What to Do If Your Child Bullies Others
-- Tips for Parents: What to Do If Your Child Witnesses Bullying
-- What Can Parents Do to Prevent and Address Cyber-Bullying?
-- How to Talk with Educators at Your Child's School about Bullying: Tips
for Parents of Bullied Students
For parents who wish to advocate for a bullying prevention program at their children's schools, the toolkit also contains the following tip sheets:
-- How Can You Advocate for a Bullying Prevention Program in Your Child's
School?
-- What Should Schools Look For in a Bullying Prevention Program?
-- Steps to Address Bullying at Your School: Tips for School
Administrators
-- Introducing the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
The toolkit is available at http://www.hazelden.org/olweusparent.
Hazelden is the publisher of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP).
This program is based on more than 35 years of research and has been proven
to prevent or reduce bullying throughout a school system by 50% or more.
OBPP takes a comprehensive approach to address the issue on four levels,
including the individual, classroom, school and community levels. Parents
can be strong advocates for a bullying prevention program, like OBPP, in
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