Bully Safe Schools Launches New Program for U.S. Schools

FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Every school counselor, social
worker, guidance counselor, psychologist, school nurse, teacher, coach, or
resource officer faces the challenge of making and keeping schools safe from
bullying. Bully Safe Schools, a national leader in research-based bullying
prevention services, has announced its 2008 schedule of one day Bully Busters
support team leader workshops for school personnel. The workshops will be
held across the United States in 31 major cities this summer and fall.
Bully Busters is a research-based bullying prevention program for
elementary and middle schools. It was developed by Arthur Horne, Dawn
Newman-Carlson and Christi Bartolomucci, with support from the College of
Education of the University of Georgia.
Bully Busters can help schools to stop bullying because it is a
solution-focused program that focuses on building healthy relationships and
helping build a school climate that supports standing up for others. It has
been proven to improve teacher skills and confidence in preventing and dealing
with all forms of bullying-from teasing and name calling to social exclusion.
The most rapidly growing form of bullying-cyber bullying-is also addressed in
the workshops.
The support team leader workshops are an effective and cost efficient way
to begin Bully Busters implementation for the upcoming 2008-2009 school year.
Attendees will learn how to organize and lead a Bully Busters support team in
their school. Co-leaders are also encouraged to attend. A support team is
comprised of key personnel and a parent representative. "The best way to
reduce bullying in any school is for the entire school to participate in the
initiative through a whole school approach, and this is what we teach in our
workshops," according to William Voors, licensed clinical social worker and
director of Bully Safe Schools.
With its emphasis on reinforcing positive behaviors, it is compatible with
school-wide PBS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support), and can be
readily implemented with the assistance of a school's PBS leadership team.
Workshop locations and dates can be found at
http://bullysafeschools.com/website/workshop.htm

About Bully Safe Schools
Bully Safe Schools, LLC (http://www.bullysafeschools.com) provides a wide
range of bullying prevention services, including online Bully Safe Surveys for
students and staff. Bully Safe Schools trainer/consultants are masters or
doctoral level professionals in counseling, education, psychology or social
work, with an average 17 years experience working with children, parents and
schools.
SOURCE Bully Safe Schools, LLC

Bill Voors of Bully Safe Schools, Director, +1-260-436-6380,
bvoors@bullysafeschools.com