Tagged With "Bullying"

I remain forever grateful that my long felt and seeming innate knowledge ( actually garnered from personal experience, work with traumatised animals and people ) has been evidenced and validated by the amazing work of Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda. They created the peg I, we, can hang our experience and expertise on and work to best apply our skills to assist others. With ACEs I am now able to communicate my knowledge with clients, colleagues and communities with the additional confidence...

I wrote an article for Our Parenting Spot on the issue of Child Safety in Schools. I did research on what kind of standards the education system has that assures parents about safety in schools from threats such as fire or bullying. The way we handle these two dangers indicates that although we talk a great deal about bullying, we do not really treat it as a danger. This becomes strange and problematic when we look at the stats on injury and death by fire versus injury and death by bullying.

School violence is rapidly becoming a top-of-mind issue, with instances of bullying, dating violence, and suicide on the rise in recent years. According to the CDC, 20.2% of students reported being bullied on school property, 6.0% said they had been threatened or injured with a weapon, and 7.8% reported being in a physical fight on school property in 2015. Additionally, 17.7% of students reported that they seriously considered attempting suicide that same year. The correlation between school...

School violence is rapidly becoming a top-of-mind issue, with instances of bullying, dating violence, and suicide on the rise in recent years. According to the CDC, 20.2% of students reported being bullied on school property, 6.0% said they had been threatened or injured with a weapon, and 7.8% reported being in a physical fight on school property in 2015. Additionally, 17.7% of students reported that they seriously considered attempting suicide that same year. The correlation between school...

Childhood bullying can have lasting harmful effects on kids, lowering their self-esteem and causing some to become suicidal when left unchecked. It’s crucially important for parents, teachers, and other adults to get involved and fight back when it comes to children being bullied. Bullies have a tendency to pick on children who have deformities or disabilities. Sometimes the bullies themselves have their own, similar issues and tease others so as to feel better about themselves. Whatever the...

Teaching self and mutual respect to eliminate bullying

Thank you, Matt, for sharing Janai Mestrovich's powerful post of her third grade student, Greg. Please know your post was highlighted on stopbullying.gov 's recent email to their list serves from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC, 20201.

Hi, Dawn: These are good questions. Drs. Felitti & Anda also understood that there were other types of ACEs, but the 10 in the study were the 10 they looked at. Since then, people have expanded the definition to include more ACEs. We have included many examples of those in the Resources Center: https://www.pacesconnection.com...xtended-aces-surveys It's probably not a bad idea for organizations to ask the population they're asking and surveying what other ACEs they're experiencing in...

Love the question. For years when doing training and consulting on this topic I often remind people that "the 10" aren't the end of trauma and/or adversity but rather just the ones that were studied. We have talked in depth about issues facing LBGTQ+ and sometimes how "coming out" can turn traumatic. We talk about dangerous neighborhoods, bullying, or the immigrant experience as well. Those are ones that often come up. Lately, there has been lots of conversation around food insecurity and...

I have had scoliosis(curvature of the spine) since my 13-14 years. Unfortunately, I had no support or help. It affected me terribly, to say the least. Only recently have I been able to overcome the overwhelming shame and lack of confidence due to having had this deformity. I was not bullied but kind of people don't want to hang out with someone whose body is off the whack. I have finally been able to put things in perspective and get over my shame. ...

Dear PACEs Community, Sharing our new article on school safety of Asian American youth: https://theconversation.com/are-americas-schools-safe-for-asian-americans-157956 Regards, Kevin