1. Bullying and Harassment

2. What is Bullying? Bullying is unwanted and aggressive.
Bullying involves a real or perceived
power imbalance.
Power imbalances involve physical strength, access to embarrassing information or popularity.
Bullying is repeated or has the potential to be repeated, over time.

3. What are the Types of Bullying?
Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things and includes:
Teasing
Name-Calling
Inappropriate Sexual Comments
Taunting
Threatening to Cause Harm

4. What are the Types of Bullying?
Social Bullying involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships and includes:
Leaving someone out on purpose
Telling others not to be friends with someone
Spreading rumors about someone
Embarrassing someone in public

5. What are the Types of Bullying?
Physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions and includes:
Hitting/kicking/pinching
Spitting
Tripping/pushing
Taking or breaking someone’s things
Making mean or rude hand gestures

6. What are the Types of Bullying?
Cyberbullying involves sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, exposing, false or mean content about someone else.
Examples of cyberbullying include:
mean text messages or s
rumors sent by or posted on social networking sites
embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles

7. aggressive and repeated.
Remember
With all types of bullying:
Verbal
Social
Physical
Cyber
It is bullying if it is
aggressive and repeated.

8. Harassment can be considered a
What is Harassment?
Harassment targets a student’s race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or religion.
Harassment is harsh and repeated.
Harassment can be considered a
Federal Crime

9. How Can YOU Stop Bullying?

10. Be More: Be a Friend to the Person being Bullied
Tell a Trusted Adult (i.e. counselor, administrator, teacher)
Don’t Give Bullying an Audience, Walk Away
With cyberbullying never respond to or forward cyberbullying messages. Block the person who is cyberbullying. Tell a trusted adult.

11. Be More: Use the Safe Utah App
Provides you with free and confidential crisis services
You can report information on bullying, support you need or support a friend may need. From this APP, Union’s counselors and administrators receive information and we will support you.

12. Videos
Be Empowered:
(Length: 5:36)

13. Be Empowered: Discussion:
What did Brooks Gibbs do to overcome this bullying?
What can you do this year to be empowered?

14. What happens if I am charged with Bullying?
At a minimum:
Firm (i.e. dispiriting & stiff) conversation with administration.
Phone call home.
To your parent/guardian
To the victims parent/guardian
School-Based Consequences.
At a maximum:
Out of School Suspension
Meeting with parent/guardians
Referral to District Case Management Team

15. Here TO
Listen & Empower

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