Cyberbullying Resources

• A Parents Guide to Cyberbullying (Connect Safely)
  Articles address the top questions parents have about cyberbullying, and gives a detailed explanation of what cyberbullying is and provides practical advice on how parents can help their children.
• A Parent's Guide to Cyberbullying (Covenant Eyes)
  This article explains to parents what cyberbullying is, why it matters, and what as parents they can do about it.
• Buckets Over Bullying
• Bullying Statistics (bullyingstatistics.org)
• Captain Compassion
  She’s a bullying prevention superhero who teaches parents, kids, and her trusty sidekick Kid Kinder how to use their bystander power to help stop bullying.
• Cyberbullying Tip Sheet
  This short article addresses common tactics of cyberbullying and teaches parents how to have an open discussion with their children about cyberbullying.
• CallerSmart
  How to stop cyberbullying, plus offers a state-by-state breakdown of laws and policies.
• Cyberbullying State-by-State Laws
  This internet page provides article links involving state laws about pornography, cyberbullying, and sexting.
• Digital Avengers (How Teens Can Fight Cyberbullying)
  This comic strips sheds a light on how to combat cyberbullying.
• EMMA
  A first-of-its-kind AI platform, Emma is designed to help reduce bullying. Emma is a technically advanced education tool programmed to process thousands of negative social media posts and simulate the effects of bullying on a teenager’s brain. (Click here to view Emma platform)
• Fixing Hate Online and Offline: All Hands on Deck!
  This article addresses how "technology can amplify and perpetuate cruelty as well as expose it," and how we should "use technology to stop the hate and be good to one another."
• "Later Haters" (AT&T Cyberbullying Campaign containing apps, tools, tips and more).
• Resources for schools on cyberbullying
• This article addresses off-school cyberbullying websites and how schools can combat cyberbullying.
• Reword (Tool preventing online abusive behavior. Watch video demo here)
  This tool allows you to post in a search bar, and will cross out any words that are negative with a red line. The line automatically goes through "insulting statements, interrupting impulsive behaviour, prompting one to reconsider their words before posting."
• Study.com - How to Talk to Your Child About Bullying: This article will cover five tips parents can use when talking to their kids about bullying. It will detail everything from what a bully is to personal experiences and how they can deal with and protect themselves from bullies.
• Submit: The Documentary
  This documentary has been shown across the country in hopes of raising awareness on the issues affiliated with cyberbullying.
• Stopbullying.gov
  This website provides adults with practical ways to stop cyberbullying on the spot.

Some additional resources for learning about bullying and cyberbullying from ConnectSafely.org

Articles

• Celebrate Bullying Prevention Month by being an ‘upstander’
• The Internet, Youth Safety and the Problem of ‘Juvenoia’ by David Finkelhor PhD
• Assessing Bullying in New Jersey Secondary Schools: Applying the Social Norms Model to Adolescent Violence by Drs. David W. Craig and H. Wesley Perkins
• Cyberbullying: A Serious problem but not an epidemic by Larry Magid, CEO ConnectSafely
• Researchers dispel myths about cyberbullying by Larry Magid, CEO ConnectSafely
• Pew Study: Kids Are Mostly Kind to Others Online
• Five Things Teachers Should Tell Students About Socializing Online by Elizabeth Kandel Englander PhD
• There Are No Bullies – Just Children Who Bully, and You Can Help Them at Tolerance.org
• Bullying & ‘peer victimization’: Clearer terms, better communication and other articles about cyberbullying here at ConnectSafely

Recommended Reading

• My Secret Bully, a children’s book by Trudy Ludwig and illustrated by Abigail Marble
• Masterminds and Wingmen and Queen Bees and Wannabes, by Rosalind Wiseman
• Kids Are Worth It!, by Barbara Coloroso
• Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress, by Nancy Willard
• Cyberbullying prevention curricula for grades 3-5 and 6-12, by Drs. Susan P. Limber, Robin M. Kowalski, and Patricia W. Agatston

Organizations, Research Centers and Other Resources

Do you need help? Contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

• Anti-bullying Help, Facts and More (bullyingstatistics.org)
• Cybebullying Research Center
• Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
• Committee for Children
• Embrace Civility in the Digital Age
• Resources for Youth in Crisis
• Massachusetts Aggression Research Center
• Pacer’s National Bullying Prevention Center
• StopBullying.gov
• The Effects Death, Traumas and Disasters Have on Mental Health
• University of Nebraska Bullying Research Network