Over the past two years, Patch has been bringing awareness to the terrible toll bullying takes on the nation’s children through a national advocacy reporting project, “The Menace of Bullies: Can We Stop This?”
Patch reporters across the country have told heartbreaking stories of children pushed to the brink by bullying, but also uplifting stories about kids who stand up to bullies, stories that offer strategies to parents, and in-depth reports about the effects of bullying and online cyberbullying.
Patch Editor-in-Chief Dennis Robaugh said the reporting project was inspired in particular by those bullied children who felt so hopeless that they chose to take their own lives.
“Not only did we want to tell their stories and the stories of their parents, we wanted to bring to light why their schools failed them,” he said. “And we wanted to help others struggling with the same emotional abuse to find help.”
A milestone in this project is Patch’s recent news partnership with No Bully, the nation’s largest anti-bullying advocacy group. Nicholas Carlisle, who was relentlessly bullied a teenager, founded No Bully in 2009 to ensure other children don’t endure similar abuse. The nonprofit’s mission is to “eradicate bullying and cyberbullying and ignite compassion worldwide,” CEO Will McCoy said.
Among No Bully’s many programs is the No Bully System program for schools that was developed in collaboration with educators. It serves hundreds of schools with more than 250,000 students.
“Through our evidence-based prevention and intervention program, we have a 90 percent success rate of solving incidents of bullying,” McCoy said. “With one out of three students being targets of bullying, No Bully’s mission has never been more important.”
The Menace of Bullies: Our Reporting So Far
From No Bully, Patch News Partner
From The Experts
What We’ve Learned
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