Websites
Maryland State Department of Education
The Student Services and Alternative Programs Branch staff provides leadership and technical assistance to local school systems to promote a safe environment conducive to learning and free from bullying and harassment.
Maryland Model Bullying Policy
Download the Maryland State Department of Education Model Bullying Policy here.
The following resources may include content that do not necessarily represent the official views of the Maryland Department of Education and listing them here does not imply endorsement of any kind. The Department assumes no responsibility for, or any obligation to monitor the content, privacy practices, operators, availability, accuracy, quality, advertising, products, services, or other materials of these sites.
Web sites are listed alphabetically under one of three categories: Curriculum Resources | Supporting Organizations | Religious Organizations.
Curriculum Resources
A Classroom of Difference
Anti-Defamation League: A World of Difference Institute, A Classroom of Difference addresses diversity issues in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade school communities.
Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders
Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) is a successful, nationally used, and independently evaluated comprehensive school health curriculum for grades 6 to 12. It provides adolescents with the knowledge and skills to act in ways that enhance their immediate and long-term health. The evaluation of THTM concluded that the curriculum produced positive effects on students' health knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviors.
Al’s Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Al's Pals and Al's Caring Pals help children who are on the receiving end of bullying by teaching them to assert themselves. Instead of perpetuating bullying by remaining passive, "on-lookers" learn to care about the feelings of others and to not tolerate hurtful behavior. Children who display bullying behavior, as well as those who are victims of it and bystanders, all benefit when they learn more positive social behaviors.
Bully Beware Productions
Teachers, students, support staff, parents and administrators need to work as a team to take action against bullying. Bully Beware offers Resources, Products and information for Educators, Families and Students.
Bullying Prevention Program (Olweus)
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program is a school-wide, systems change program that is effective at reducing rates of bullying in a school if implemented with fidelity.
Bully Proofing Series
Sopris, a Cambium Learning™ company, was founded on the belief that all students can achieve. The company specializes in providing research-based curricula, targeted interventions, assessment, positive school climate resources, and professional services to educators working with pre K-12 students who have special needs.
CyberSmart!
Cyberbullying Package, under partnership with National School Board Association's Technology Leadership Network.
i-SAFE
i-SAFE Inc. is a leading publisher of media literacy and digital citizenship education materials and programming with worldwide distribution channels.
National Bullying Prevention Center
Founded in 2006, PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center unites, engages and educates communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant and interactive resources. PACER’s bullying prevention resources are designed to benefit all students, including students with disabilities.
Peacebuilders
Peacebuilders is a science-based, research-validated violence prevention curriculum and professional development program for grades pre-K to 12. Its essence is a common language - six principles, taught, modeled and practiced. These same principles set behavioral expectations, reduce aggression, and transform the climate and culture of any environment to one which is cooperative, productive, and academically successful.
Set Straight on Bullies
The National School Safety Center serves as an advocate for safe, secure and peaceful schools worldwide and as a catalyst for the prevention of school crime and violence. NSSC provides school communities and their school safety partners with quality information, resources, consultation, and training services. The National School Safety Center identifies and promotes strategies, promising practices and programs that support safe schools for all students as part of the total academic mission.
Standing Up, Not Standing By
Use this kit to stop cyberbullies in their tracks. It has the materials you need to show students how to stand up when they see digital harassment happening and to help you create a positive school culture where kids can thrive – both online and off.
Steps to Respect
The researched-based STEPS TO RESPECT program teaches elementary students to recognize, refuse, and report bullying, be assertive, and build friendships.
Stop Bullying
StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on how kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and others in the community can prevent or stop bullying.
Taking the Bully by the Horns
Taking the Bully by the Horns does exactly what the title implies. It takes the bull or “bully” by the horns — stopping it before it stops you (or your child). “Taking the Bully by the Horns” books, bullying programs for staff and students, and anti-bullying workshops all definitively answer the question – What is Bullying? And what can you do to STOP IT. You’ll also learn how to identify bullies, and how to deal with the effects of bullying.
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children. They provide free educational materials to teachers and other school practitioners in the U.S. and abroad.
The Bully Project
The Bully Project film is a new feature-length documentary that follows "a year in the life" of America's bullying crisis, and offers an intimate look at how bullying has touched the lives of five kids and their families.
Think B4 you Speak
This campaign aims to raise awareness about the prevalence and consequences of anti-LGBT bias and behavior in America’s schools. Ultimately, the goal is to reduce and prevent the use of homophobic language in an effort to create a more positive environment for LGBT teens. The campaign also aims to reach adults, including school personnel and parents; their support of this message is crucial to the success of efforts to change behavior.
Supporting Organizations
Bullying
Bullying.org's purpose is to eliminate bullying in our society by supporting individuals and organizations to take positive actions against bullying through the sharing of resources, and to guide and champion them in creating non-violent solutions to the challenges and problems associated with bullying.
CASEL
Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
The Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use mobilizes educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social aggression.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Assessment Tools
Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - LGBT Health
CDC.gov is CDC's primary online communication channel. Annually, there are close to 500 million page views to the site, averaging 41 million page views per month. CDC.gov provides users with credible, reliable health information.
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Committee for Children
Committee for Children.
Cyberbullying Research Center
The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.
Education Resources Information Center
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Database.
The Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Steering Committee
The Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Steering Committee, part of StopBullying.gov.
Federation of Children with Special Needs
Read the article "Vulnerable Targets: Students with Disabilities and Bullying".
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. This study by a national advocacy group documents how bullying spawns loneliness, depression, and suicidal tendencies among its victims and foreshadows crime and violence by perpetrators.
GLCCB
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB).
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network: Anti-Bullying Resources.
Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence
The Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence at the George Washington University.
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Infectious Disease and Environmental Health Administration (IDEHA).
Medline Plus: Bullying
Medline Plus: Bullying, a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Mental Health America's Factsheet
Mental Health America's Factsheet: Bullying and Gay Youth.
Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, Inc.
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) vigorously promotes and supports efforts to rid America’s schools of the destructive influence of violence in all of its forms. NASP believes that schools must continue to increase levels of safety and security that promote youth wellness and resilience. Download their Success in School Resource Kit.
National Center on PBIS
National Center on PBIS.
National Crime Prevention Council
National Crime Prevention Council.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
National Criminal Justice Reference Service, U.S. Department of Justice. Access Internet Safety Information.
National PTA
National Parents and Teachers Association.
National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable database of interventions to help people, agencies, and organization implement practices and programs in their communities.
National School Safety Center
National School Safety Center.
Pacer Center
A creative, innovative and educational website designed for elementary school students to learn about bullying prevention, engage in activities and be inspired to take action. Part of the National Center for Bullying Prevention.
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), National.
Promising Practices Network
The Promising Practices Network is a unique resource that offers credible, research-based information on what works to improve the lives of children and familieselementary school students to learn about bullying prevention, engage in activities and be inspired to take action.
Rainbow Youth Alliance
Rainbow Youth Alliance.
Rosalind Wiseman
Rosalind Wiseman, Creating Cultures of Dignity.
STRYVE
STRYVE: Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere.
SAMHSA
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is determined to end suicide among LGBTQ youth by providing life-saving and life-affirming resources including our nationwide, 24/7 crisis intervention lifeline, digital community and advocacy/educational programs that create a safe, supportive and positive environment for everyone.
U Oregon, Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior
University of Oregon-Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior.
US Department of Education
U.S. Department of Education Safe and Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center.