About the Project
The Surviving Bullies Project Mission
Overview
The Surviving Bullies Project (SBP) is a grassroots effort dedicated to helping targets of bullying, their family, friends and community. The SBP strives to provide practical tools and strategies for targets to better cope with being bullied and regain control of their situation. The SBP also works to create tools that empower everyone including parents, teachers, school administrators, young adults and kids to take charge and foster a more tolerant social climate in their schools and community.
Helping the Individual
The Surviving Bullies Project seeks to help the individual by:
1. Making available, in hard copy, a user-friendly yet sophisticated Surviving Bullies Workbook, which provides practical tools and advice for adolescent targets of bullying (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grades). The workbook translates the latest academic literature related to bullying into an engaging format for teens. Status: available at http://www.survivingbullies.com
2. Creating a network of resources for young adults and adults on the issue of bullying via http://www.survivingbullies.com. The site features other leading anti-bullying websites worldwide, articles for young adults and parents, programs for schools and the latest research related to bullying. The site also offers other resources from warning signs of bullying to real-life stories from former targets of bullying.
Empowering the Community
The Surviving Bullies Project strives to empower the community via a program called “From Bystanders to Allies: Creating and Maintaining Caring School Communities.” This program is designed to unite parents, school personnel, and students in a collaborative effort to lessen bullying within their community through initiatives to increase character education for all. The program will offer communities a curriculum with inexpensive and comprehensive interactive multimedia (IMM) tools streamlined into three modules:
1. A student-led, anti-bullying bystander empowerment program. This module will provide a multimedia anti-bullying curriculum designed to be implemented across multiple grades. The goal of the project will be to enlist students in each grade to “lead from the front” and take ownership of their school’s culture by taking a stand against mean behaviors directed towards their peers and other members of their community.
2. A parent-training program. This module will provide an interactive program designed to educate all parents about the complexity of issues related to mean behaviors and bullying. In addition, the program seeks to provide strategies for parents to empower their young adults to become peer allies.
3. A teacher-training program. This module seeks to provide teachers with the insights, tools and strategies to better deal with mean behaviors in the classrooms. It also seeks to provide strategies for teachers to empower their students to become peer allies.
Funding for the “From Bystanders to Allies: Creating and Maintaining Caring School Communities” program is provided by the Surviving Bullies Charity, Inc. The charity is dedicated to fostering a more tolerant social climate in America’s schools and communities via comprehensive programs dedicated to increasing character education for all community members: parents, school personnel, young adults, and children.