Ontario Bullying
Awareness and Prevention Week
- Begins every year on the 3rd Sunday of November
- Begins every year on the 3rd Sunday of November
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This year was November 20-26th
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Ontario students,
school staff and parents are encouraged to learn more about bullying and its
effect on student learning and well-being.
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Safe schools
teams are encouraged to plan activities or launch initiatives that heighten
awareness of bullying and its impact on the school community.
Example:
At Christ the King Catholic
Elementary School in Richmond Hill, students and staff can be involved in a
variety of initiatives to promote positive behaviour and prevent bullying.
Every month, school staff nominate students who clearly demonstrate character
virtues. And, students can nominate their peers who are "caught
caring" by putting their names in a jar that sits in every classroom.
Students are then recognized at a virtue assembly for their acts of kindness and
displays of virtue. "It's a wonderful opportunity for us to come together
as a community," said Principal Jacquie Cushing Dill. Intermediate
students can also get involved with the student-led Luke 4:18 Social
Justice Committee to take on leadership roles and help make a difference.
Red Cross ‘Beyond the Hurt’ Program
The Canadian Red Cross’ Beyond the Hurt program supports a
school or organization-wide approach to preventing bullying and building
empathy and respect.
Beyond the Hurt is based on the belief that all youth—those
targeted, those who bully, and bystanders—have a critical role in preventing
bullying.
Four-hour bullying
prevention online course for adults
To learn more about bullying and how you can help provide a
safe environment for children and youth, you can take the affordable, 4-hour
online Beyond the Hurt course.
Bullying prevention workshop for youth
Red Cross Training Partners can deliver a three-hour Beyond
the Hurt workshop to youth. Through this workshop, youth will understand:
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bullying, harassment and discrimination
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how youth can use their personal power
to resolve and prevent these problems
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how to find and use resources to
respond to bullying and harassment, including cyberbullying.
Bullying prevention
Youth Facilitator training
Beyond the Hurt Youth Facilitator Training equips youth to deliver
the Beyond the Hurt bullying prevention workshop to their younger counterparts
and peers.
Bullying prevention
facilitator training for adults
Red Cross Training Partners
can also opt to have school personnel certified through Beyond the Hurt
Prevention Educator Training for adults. These adult Prevention Educators can
directly deliver the Beyond the Hurt bullying prevention workshop to youth aged
11 and up.
Stop A Bully
Stop A Bully is
a registered national charity and Canada-wide anti-bullying program developed
in 2009 by a B.C. teacher which allows any student who is a victim or witness
of bullying and cyberbullying to be able to safely report the details
to school officials. Any student, at any school in Canada, can use this
reporting service which is provided at no cost to all students and schools.
The Stop A Bully program helps
increase bullying awareness & accountability within
schools to allow officials to be more proactive in preventing serious incidents
of bullying. Stop A Bully provides schools with critical
information to be proactive in assisting all students who are witness, target
and perpetrator of school bullying.
An Act to designate Bullying
Awareness and Prevention Week in Schools and to provide for bullying prevention
curricula, policies and administrative accountability in schools.
