Full Notification

OCTOBER IS BULLYING PREVENTION MONTH.
Bullying Prevention and Awareness Facts
-More than 160,000 U.S. students stay home from school each day from fear of being bullied.
-Bullying directly affects a student’s ability to learn. Students who are bullied find it difficult to concentrate, show a decline in grades, and lose self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth.
-Students who are bullied report more physical symptoms, such as headaches or stomachaches, and mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety, than other students.
-In some cases, bullying has led to devastating consequences, such as school shootings and suicide.
-Bullying affects witnesses as well as targets. Witnesses often report feeling unsafe, helpless, and afraid that they will be the next target.
-Bullying is a communitywide issue that must no longer be ignored or thought of as a rite of passage. Students, parents, and educators all have a role in addressing bullying situations and changing school culture.
-The two keys to creating change are: increasing awareness that bullying has lifelong impact, and giving people the tools they need to respond effectively.
-Students can be especially effective in bullying intervention. More than 55 percent of bullying situations will stop when a peer intervenes. Student education of how to address bullying for peers is critical, as is the support of adults.
-Silence is no longer an acceptable response to bullying. Adults, students, and educators can no longer look away when they see bullying. Ignoring it won’t work. Everyone needs to be empowered with options to respond.

PACER'S NATIONAL BULLYING PREVENTION CENTER
http://www.pacer.org/bullying/

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UNITY DAY - MAKE IT ORANGE AND MAKE IT END! UNITE AGAINST BULLYING.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012
“THE END OF BULLYING BEGINS WITH YOU.”
What are your true colors when it comes to bullying? If you care about students who are bullied and want bullying to end, make your color ORANGE on Unity Day, Wednesday, Oct. 10. That's the day everyone can link together—in schools, communities and online—and send one large, ORANGE message of support to students who have experienced bullying.

Ways to unite on Oct. 10:
In your school, home or community:
1. Wear the color orange.
2. Write the word “UNITY” on your hand, on your notebook, or on a poster to hang in your locker or hallway
3. Set up a “unity” table.
a. Hand out orange “unity ribbons.” (Create your own ribbons. Purchase a spool of ribbon at craft or dollar store. Cut into 12” strips. With black marker, on the ribbon, write UNITY, “The End of Bullying Begins With Me”, or create your own bullying prevention message)
b. Give the opportunity to donate for the ribbons and send the proceeds to PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center.

Online:
4. On Oct. 10, update your Facebook status to “UNITY DAY, October 10th— Join the movement to make it orange and make it end! If you are being bullied, you are not alone. Unite and be a champion against bullying!
5. “Share” the Unity Day event with your friends.
6. Post pictures of anyone wearing orange to this UNITY DAY Event
page.
7. Sign “The End of Bullying Begins With You” Petition.