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Internet Safety Education for Teens: Getting it Right
Following on from last week’s blog, we want to share with you another useful Factsheet produced by the Crimes Against Children Research Center (CACRC). This time, it’s a factsheet on Internet Safety Education for Teens: Getting it Right which provides research-based content in a useful “Don’t Say” and ”Do Say” format. It’s so important that we get our [...]
Continue reading...The True Prevalence of “Sexting”: A Useful Factsheet
21. June 2011
Are you confused about sexting – what it is, who’s doing it, and how often? Are you trying to make sense of the various studies and work out what information is accurate when the results often vary widely? Then look no further …
Continue reading...The Youth Voice Project: What actually helps in bullying situations?
10. June 2011
The Youth Voice Project (Penn State Erie – Stan Davis and Dr. Charisse Nixon): What do youth really think about our prevention efforts? We have our ideas about what we think works, but what do 13,000 teens in 31 schools think? The results are surprising…
Continue reading...Best Defenses Against Cyber Bullies: Good parenting and self-control can help
26. May 2011
Check out this short article by Abigail Baird for Scientific American which refers to a study by Carter Hay and Ryan Meldrum at the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. In a study of 426 adolescents (average age 15), Hay and Meldrum found that
Continue reading...New Resource on Suicide and Bullying from SPRC
21. April 2011
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) has published a new 8-page Issue Brief on Suicide and Bullying. As the SPRC website notes, this publication examines
Continue reading...Sexting: A Typology – A “Must Read” for law enforcement, school officials, parents and others
12. April 2011
If you are one of the many among us trying to understand the “complicated phenomenon” of sexting, then you would do well to read this latest 11-page bulletin by two of the top researchers in this field – Janis Wolak and David Finkelhor of the Crimes Against Children Research Center (University of New Hampshire).
Continue reading...White House & HHS Launch Stopbullying.gov
29. March 2011
In conjunction with the recent White House summit on bullying, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services launched an excellent resource site called www.stopbullying.gov . The site is very well organized and navigable, with an attractive color scheme and quick link buttons for kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and community members — following on the President’s [...]
Continue reading...Evidence-based alternatives to zero tolerance discipline policies
25. March 2011
We often hear the words “zero tolerance” in discussions about school discipline policies, perhaps especially nowadays in connection with bullying and cyberbullying. Before you make decisions about whether or not zero tolerance is the right approach for your school, however, we suggest that you check out this March 2011 informative Research-to-Results Brief from Child Trends which [...]
Continue reading...Teens can talk to a judge without being in court, at “AsktheJudge.info”
22. March 2011
Judge Tom Jacobs was a “Juvy” (Juvenile) judge for 23 years and seems to have seen …
Continue reading...White House Conference on Bullying Prevention – March 10, 2011
10. March 2011
Today (Thursday, March 10, 2011), the President convened a conference on bullying prevention at which some of nation’s leading experts and practitioners on bullying prevention spoke (Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., Susan M. Swearer, Ph.D., Rosalind Wiseman, Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D, and others). The conference is available for review for a limited time at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live, and/or check out the [...]
Continue reading...Free Kindle app: What’s next? Free Smart Phones? The effect of free technology on youth?
24. February 2011
Just before the Holidays, Kindle dropped its prices, and now Amazon is offering the Kindle PC app for free. In many places around the world, we see technology being offered for “free,” but it’s not really “free.” The marketplace appears to be finding “other people to pay for it” as it learns who receives an economic [...]
Continue reading...GRID: A new Internet safety resource from the Family Online Safety Institute
15. February 2011
We have reported before on the important work of the Family Online Safety Institute (“FOSI”) – see Cyberbullying Prevention, Cyberbullying Conferences and Events, and Cyberbullying: How can we be a part of the solution? - and now we are delighted to feature their latest very impressive resource which is designed ”for governments, industry, lawyers, academics, educationalists and all [...]
Continue reading...Safer Internet Day 2011: It’s more than a game, it’s your life
8. February 2011
Today is being marked as Safer Internet Day in “more than 70 countries, from Canada to South Korea and Russia to Kenya, including all 27 countries of the European Union.” As noted by Neelie Kroes, patron of Safer Internet Day, and European Digital Agenda Commissioner, “[f]or children and young people especially, [Safer Internet Day]is both [...]
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28. June 2011
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