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Child Bullying

Group Members: Laura BrittoKrizzia Prado, Rhoda Adu, Alesha Francis, Sue De Oliviera

Saturday, April 28, 2012
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What is Bullying?

Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior manifested by the use of force orcoercion to afect others, particularly when the behavior is habitual andinvolves an imbalance of power. It can include verbal harassment, physicalassault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular

victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. The "imbalance of power" may be social power and/or physical power. The

victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying)



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We are advocating against

Facts

Bullying happens everywhere and can inflict anyone. Whether you arebullied, a bully or a bystander, you are very well involved and

afected. Bullying does not discriminate against race, age, gender, religion,

and sexual preference.

Through education, awareness, and our actions, we hope toextinguish bullying.

The first step towards diminishing bullying is prevention. Initially, wecan prevent bullying from occurring by educating everyone.

Nobody, especially not children, should have to endure bullying. It isa form of harassment and as Early Childhood Educators we willstrongly fight against that



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How does Bullying significantly

impacts the society?Children Causes physical, emotional, psychological and social trauma

It is estimated that about 60-80% of children are bullied at school

Other risk factors such as depression and personality disorders, aggressive/

hostile behaviors and engaging in obsessive or rigid actionsFamilies

Causes distress in family emotional, physically, psychologically and socially

Results in arguments with child being bullied/with bully

Families become concerned about their child (bullied, bully, and/orbystander)



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The Field of Early Childhood Education

In child care centers, bullying causes pain on the bullied It causes distress on the bystanders (trauma of being exposed to

violence) When someone is bullied, it is not only the bully and victim who are

becoming less sensitive to violence. In most cases, the friends andclassmates of the bully and the victim accept the violence as normal.

Community/Society

Bullying causes an imbalance of power in the community/society Anti-Bullying Movement: The charity Act Against Bullying was

formed in the UK in 2003, and the first National Bullying PreventionMonth was declared in the United States in 2006. The Suicide ofPhoebe Prince in 2010 brought attention to the issue inMassachusetts, and sparked reforms in state education. The It GetsBetter Project was started in 2010 to combat gay teen suicides, andLady Gaga announced the Born



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Actions Taken

Our group team up with the organization The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN) not-for-profit charitable organization that strives to make schools and communities safer.The Canadian Safe School was found in 1997 by advocates from education, police and

business communities.

CSSN is recognized by mass media (national print, television and radio) as a primarysource for information and comment on youth-violence issues of the day in Canada.

CSSN believes and commits to building a community that is a safe environment for allchildren and nurturing school. CSSN partners with police services, school boards and thegovernment to advocate on youth violence

The Canadian Safe School Network envisions a society in which all children and youth can:

Become Violence- free environment

Advocate and become social responsible to respond to personal safety issue andpotentially violent



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During our visit to CSSN

We had the opportunity to meet Katie White & Dave program manager

Discuss programs that CSSN ofers to the youth and preschoolers

Lear about the SNAP (STOP NOW AND PLAN) program and Cool Kids in theZone aim for children in Kindergarten

SNAP program is designed to help children deal efectively with anger by teachingthem to evaluate the situation before acting out

Focuses on teaching children self-control through role plays and modeling

Cool Kids in the zone is a resources for K-2 students available on DVD

Program is designed to for children to learn the 5 diferent values- Respect,

Kindness, Honesty, Cooperation & Empathy



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Thank you CSSN!



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Denton Place Centre for EarlyLearning

Our group advocated to the Jr. / senior preschool room at Denton placeCenter for Early Learning

During our visit at the centre, members of our group participated in stressand frustration relief workshop with the children

Children had the opportunity to express their feeling through outdoor sports.The sports included soccer, basketball, bicycle riding, hula hoop and playingcatch. Active play included outdoor games such as octopus, Mr. Wolf, fox andrabbit game.

Children at Denton place also experience healthy yelling singing and dancing.

They were also taught an educational song about bullying.



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Pictures of Bullying Workshop



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Follow up Plan

After visiting The Canadian Safe School Network we plan on continuing thisproject (advocating against Bullying) by going to a one day Pd event thatoutlines the and examines the latest trends on Cyber Bullying.

This event takes place on April 27, 2012 at the Spirale Banquet andConference Centre

We plan on continuing to education other children at diferent centers aboutthe gravity and seriousness of bullying. By educating the young, we raisethem with the knowledge and tools to know that bullying is never the answer.

Creating educational presentations and workshop for the children at thecentre we will work at.



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