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What is Bullying? A New Uniform Definition for Research

Feb 10, 2014 By: Alana Vivolo-Kantor, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and R. Matthew Gladden, Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention
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Federal
Research
Resources

In order to stop bullying before it begins, it is necessary to improve the consistency and comparability of data on bullying.

Bullying and Suicide: What’s the Connection?

Dec 30, 2013 By: Alana Vivolo-Kantor, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Ellen Singer, Center for Adoption Support and Education and Ingrid Donato, Chief, Mental Health Promotion Branch, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and StopBullying.gov Ed Board member and James Wright, LCPC, Public Health Advisor for SAMHSA and Stopbullying.gov Ed Board member
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Risk Factors
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Effects
Help
Research
Resources
Suicide

In the past decade, headlines reporting the tragic stories of a young person's suicide death linked in some way to bullying have become regrettably comm

Federal Partners and Cartoon Network Team Up with Youth

Nov 06, 2013 By: Steffie Rapp, Juvenile Justice Specialist, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and StopBullying.gov Ed Board member and Alice Cahn, Cartoon Network
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Prevention
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Community
Community Organizations
Events
Federal
Health
Online
Resources
Secondary school
Social Media
Student Leaders

The Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention, a group of representatives from across the federal government came up with a great way of having youth and adult