Check out the recent issue of the Ontario Health Promotion Email (OHPE)
Bulletin #382, which has an excellent article by David Millen, exec.
director of Child & Youth Friendly Ottawa, on the issues of bullying in
schools. Titled "Towards a Bully Free Canada", the author notes:
"When your child leaves for school in the morning, what is it that worries
you more: that your child might be hated or that your child might hate?
After more than two decades of study, educators and child practitioners in
Canada are beginning to take the matter of victimization seriously.
Bullying hurts and for many the hurt can last a lifetime or even lead to
suicide....
This article will attempt to demonstrate that the single-discipline,
"quick fix" approach is destined to fail. Until there is a firm
theoretical definition and framework for dealing with bullying behaviour
it will remain a significant issue for children and youth and indeed for
the education, criminal justice, and health care systems. Bullying is a
phenomena deeply rooted in social practices and greatly impacted by
societal influences and as such it cannot be dealt with merely as a school
yard issue."
see the full article on the OHPE website at:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewFeatures.cfm?ISSUE_ID=382&startrow=1
(or go to http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/feature.cfm and click on the second
feature from the top).
DaGood resources accompany the article, in OHPE 382.2 at:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewResources.cfm?ISSUE_ID=382&startrow=1
Also check out the significant and timely resources from CBC on the topic
of girls bullying:
On October 7, CBC Toronto screened the NFB film "It's A Girl's World" and
hosted a lively packed community forum. See
http://toronto.cbc.ca/features/girls_world/
where you can hear clips from the panel of experts and participants or
http://www.onf.ca/itsagirlsworld/splash.html
for information on the film.
The CBC program Ideas airs the third part of their series on the film on
October 20 (http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/girls_world/index.html).
The CBC National website has information from their program on Bullying
aired March 2001 at http://www.cbc.ca/national/news/bully/
and the National Crime Prevention Strategy's paper 'No More Bullies' is at
http://www.prevention.gc.ca/en/library/features/bullying/index.html.
Alison Stirling,
co-facilitator CLICK4HP listserv
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