1. NIAAA Bullying/Hazing Presentation

2. Parents Reinforce child’s self-worth and importance
Don’t send mixed messages
Instill that no on has the right to embarrass, inflict pain or humiliate them
Work with the school and administration
Network and talk with other parents in the program
Most hazing does not occur until after the age of 12.

3. Coach and Adult Advisor
Understand the school district’s anti-hazing policy.
Be available for the members of your team/group to listen and react to their concerns.
Create an environment of trust, respect, and sincere concern.
If they do not have one, create one for your team/group and encourage the school administration to develop a policy.
Be available for the members of your team/group to listen and react to their concerns. Create an environment of trust, respect, and sincere concern.

4. Coach and Adult Advisor
Know leadership responsibilities.
Explain your position on hazing and the consequences.
Set and communicate team rules.
Define any special privileges that upperclassmen receive on the team or group.
Explain that such privileges come with responsibility for appropriate behavior!!!
As the leader of your student group, you shoulder the responsibility of the success of the team/group on and off the competition platform. Have more than a working knowledge of the role of coercion and groupthink in developing young people.
Explain your position on hazing and the consequences if a hazing incident occurs. Set and communicate team rules and the consequences if they are broken. Define any special privileges that upperclassmen receive on the team or in school and explain that such privileges come with responsibility for appropriate behavior especially as it relates to hazing.

5. Coach and Adult Advisor
Discourage cliques.
Openly discuss the group dynamic.
Send a clear message that you will not tolerate any hazing on the team/group.
Establish and maintain open communications between the students, parents, school administration, and community.
Discourage cliques and clearly communicate the importance of all roles on the team/group.
Openly discuss the group dynamic where embarrassment and degradation can occur and how that is detrimental to the team/group’s philosophy of being a single focused team.

6. Coach and Adult Advisor
Generate strategies to build group unity and team pride with positive methods and practices.
Eliminate any old traditions with questionable practices.
Lead the team/group in developing new traditions that involve hard work for positive and desirable results. Some examples:

7. Strategies
Adopt a middle school and put on a clinic or exhibition for the younger students.
Assign an older team/group member to be a “buddy” with a younger or newer member.
Create a “Run-A-Thon”, “Read-A-Thon” or “Push-Up-A-Thon” and have sponsors donate money for every mile ran, book read, or push-up made.

8. Strategies Participate in a Ropes Course or Team trip
Preseason Team Activities
Adopt a local charity and dedicate a game or contest to that group.
Participate in team dinners and/or sleep-overs.
Dress up for team functions or for away contests.

9. Strategies
Participate in a cross-age mentoring program with the local middle school or elementary school.
Participate in a community service project that they have to work together in order to get the tasked accomplished.

10. Thank You !
Contact information:
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For additional information : B. Elliot Hopkins, MLD, CAA NFHS Director of Educational Service (o)
Inside the Darkness- High School Hazing blog:
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11. DIRECT BULLYING Physical Aggression Pushing Shoving Spitting Kicking
Hitting
Defacing Property
Stealing

12. DIRECT BULLYING Physical Aggression
Physical Acts that are demeaning and humiliating but not bodily harmful
Locking in a closed or confined space
Physical Violence against family or friends
Threatening with a weapon
Inflicting bodily harm

13. Teasing about clothes or possessions Teasing about appearance
DIRECT BULLYING
Verbal Aggression
Mocking
Name-calling
Dirty Looks
Taunting
Teasing about clothes or possessions
Teasing about appearance
Verbal threats of aggression against property or possessions or violence of inflicting physical harm

14. DIRECT BULLYING Intimidation
Threatening to reveal personal information
Graffiti
Publicly challenging to do something (Dare)
Defacing property or clothing
Playing a dirty trick
Taking possessions (e.g. lunch, clothing)

15. Setting up to look foolish Setting up to take the blame
INDIRECT BULLYING
Social Alienation
Gossiping
Embarrassing
Setting up to look foolish
Spreading rumors
Ethnic slurs
Setting up to take the blame
Publicly humiliating

16. INDIRECT BULLYING Social Alienation Excluding from the group
Social rejection
Maliciously excluding
Manipulating
Manipulating social order to achieve rejection
Threatening with total isolation by peer group

17. Harassment, Bullying, Hazing
Bullying is more aggressive in nature and can include physical and verbal acts of aggression including intimidation and social alienation.

18. Harassment, Bullying, Hazing
Harassment is more of an annoyance and generally involves unwanted advances or contact.

19. Harassment, Bullying, Hazing
Hazing refers to any act expected of someone being part of a group that humiliates, degrades, or risks emotional and/or physical harm regardless of the person’s willingness to participate.

20. Your Duties
According to the Office of Civil Rights a school is responsible for addressing harassment incidents about which it knows or reasonably should have known. FAPE- Free and Appropriate Education