Capacity building for youth led social change is programmed through the Ms. Foundation for Women. As the country’s first national, multi-issue women’s fund, the Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls’ leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. CFYS is a program which supports organizations working at the intersection of positive youth development, youth-led social change and gender-conscious programming.
The Math/Science Network is a non-profit membership organization of educators, scientists, mathematicians, parents, community leaders, and government and corporate representative. Our mission is to promote the continuing advancement in mathematics and science education of all people, with a particular emphasis on the needs of women and girls. The goal of the Math/Science Network is to increase the participation, retention, and advancement of girls and women in mathematics, science, and technology.
The Serteens Club of Hawaii is a service-oriented club comprised of some of the state's brightest gifted and talented students from various Hawaii public and private schools. The goals of the program are to promote social interaction, leadership training, peer association, and service to the community. With various service projects, socials, educational speakers, and camps, Serteens learn about their world and how to give back to the society.
This book, by Jessica Walters, is about a teenage boy, Charlie, who moves away from home to become a writer but soon finds himself tortured with conflict over whether to return to a "normal" life with his friends or continue all alone. As the tear between emotional and intellectual fulfillment intertwines with the slowly dawning realization that he's growing up, Charlie reveals portions of previous writings: most notably a piece on the fictitious author, C.N. Williams. After introducing us to Williams's wonderland Charlie's own reality begins to blur. The line between inspiration and imagination is lost, and we watch as our hero and his main character struggle to find balance -- Both taunted by genius and constantly at odds with time.
Children’s Friendship Training is a complete manualized guide for therapists treating children with peer problems. This unique, empirically validated treatment is the first to integrate parents into the therapy process to ensure generalization to school and home. Representing more than 12 years of research, Children’s Friendship Training presents the comprehensive social skills training program developed by these pioneering authors.
There have always been "in-crowds" and outsiders among adolescents, but today the social castes of the American high school are proving to be more incendiary, destructive, and even life-threatening to students than ever before. From playgrounds to high school parking lots, kids of all ages need more help than ever in navigating the cruel pressures that can be inflicted by these groups.
This manual is a guide for helping students sixth grade and above develop manners and personal communication skills. It contains practical exercises which teach students skills in verbal and non-verbal communication.
Oppositional and defiant children present a major challenge for teachers and other educators. These students must feel they are emotionally and physically safe in the classroom. The authors show how educators can help students move from despair to hope, from anger to comfort, and from failure to success.
Free To Be... You And Me is a storybook and a songbook, a collection of poems and a gallery of pictures that bring out the child in readers of all ages. This innovative book celebrates diversity, challenges stereotypes, and encourages kids to be themselves in a joyful, positive manner. Its contents can be read aloud and shared. Best of all, in the midst of all the merriment this book brings, kids experience important messages and learn valuable life lessons.
Hundreds of kids ages 6-13 talk about school, friends, their families, and the future.
In his introduction, Delisle writes that he hopes that his book will provide young readers with "a feeling that you are not alone.'' The concern is vital, especially for the population and the age group that his book targets. Delisle has listened to kids, and the young voices speak out about understandings of giftedness; adult expectations of gifted kids; parent, sibling, and peer relationships; schooling; and future hopes and dreams. The responses are brief, and labeled with the sex, age, and home state of the child. Gifted children will benefit from this book, as will those who guide and mentor them. The cartoon-like illustrations represent the sexes and racial groups equally. Young people are sure to enjoy reading, discussing, and sharing this book.
"Step-by-step, parents learn to help their 5 to 12-year-olds make friends and solve problems with other kids. This guide also offers concrete help for teasing, bullying and meanness, both for the child who is picked on and the tormentor. Based on the prestigious UCLA Children's Social Skills Program, this book teaches clinically tested techniques that really work."
The aim of this book is to help children who are "square pegs" in social circles. The authors, both of whom are Clinical Psychologists, offer parents strategies for helping their child improve his/her social relationships through improved non-verbal communication skills. Chapter titles include: Use of space and touch, gestures and postures, facial expressions, and the like.
This is a great book about manners for any and every occasion. Most books on manners are droll do-this-do-that books, but this one is hilarious and still gets the point across. Some of the topics covered in this book are: how to "cope with cliques, handle friendship problems, be a host with the most (and a guest with the best), offer someone your seat, fight fair, answer invitations, deal with rude adults, respond to bigoted remarks, write a letter addressed properly for any occasion, survive a formal dinner..." and much more.
A collection of 26 poems intended to boost children's self-esteem. A companion leader's guide to the book is available and the two titles may make an appropriate addition to a guidance counselor's curriculum.
"This proven, comprehensive program gives children the skills and knowledge they need to form meaningful, healthy, lasting relationships. In 70 engaging lessons, students learn about themselves, others, and the nature of friendship, how to communicate feelings, appreciate differences, resolve conflicts peacefully, and much more."
An award-winning book by the author of the acclaimed child-care guide 'The Difficult Child' shows parents how to deal with their child's or adolescent's emotional problems, from aggression to inattention to lack of friends. Topics covered include: lack of friends; poor self-image; sibling rivalry; hyperactivity; sadness and fearfulness; eating problems; nervous habits; aggressive behavior; defiance; sleep problems; lying; and learning disabilities.
This book by Margaret J. Meeker, M.D., examines some of the pressures that are placed on teens in today's society. It also give parents some information on how to keep communication open between themselves and their teen.
Scott Cooper helps parents teach kids how to speak up for themselves more assertively, gently, and effectively. Each chapter, based on the characteristics of a particular bird, uses a wealth of examples and imaginative exercises to give kids the confidence to speak truth to power.
Helping a child become aware of the needs and feelings of others is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting. This nine-month program, designed for families with children aged three years and older, combines solid advice and telling anecdotes with quizzes, games, and other activities to guide parents every step of the way.
This book is recommended for ages 13 and up. Based on his father's bestselling "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. To keep it fun, he "stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world... along with a few other surprises." Flip open to any page and become instantly absorbed in real-life stories of teens who have overcome obstacles to succeed, and step-by-step guides to shifting paradigms, building equity in "relationship bank accounts," creating action plans, and much more.
The book The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School - How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence is by author Barbara Coloroso. This is an extremely helpful book that both parents and teachers can use to deal with bullying, an aspect of school that the author feels "is a life-and-death issue that we ignore at our children's peril." Staring with a bottom-line assumption that "bullying is a learned behavior," Coloroso (Parenting Through Crisis) wonderfully explains not only the ways that the bully, the bullied and the bystander are "three characters in a tragic play" but also how "the scripts can be rewritten, new roles created, the plot changed."
A classic introduction to growing up gifted, the GUIDE has now been revised and updated for today’s bright, creative, talented kids. Based on new surveys of hundreds of gifted kids, it speaks directly to them. It includes first-person advice from boys and girls that’s pertinent, realistic, and inspiring. It answers readers’ questions about why they think and learn the way they do, what 'giftedness' and IQ really mean, different types of intelligence, how to handle high expectations, how to make school more challenging, how to cope with teasing, how to make friends, and much more.
This book invites kids to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, patience, respect, and more. Children and teens, with support from parents and educators, can develop in themselves positive character traits. According to the publisher, the book includes inspiring quotations, dilemmas to challenge readers to think about, discuss, and debate positive traits, and activities inspire them to explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their community. True stories profile real kids who exemplify positive traits; resources point the way toward related books, organizations, programs, and web sites. Throughout, kids are encouraged to understand themselves better and develop the traits that are most important to them.
Practical advice and proven solutions show how to teach children manners without turning one's home into a boot camp. 50+ color photos & illustrations.
This article discusses a study about the effects that bullying has on gifted children.
ePALS Classroom Exchange is the world's largest and fastest growing online classroom community, connecting more than 4.5 million users. ePALS helps learners of all ages become active members of the global community by giving them access to tools, resources and each other. Since 1996, ePALS has allowed learners to broaden their horizons, work together and form new friendships. By developing and offering barrier-breaking resources such as the Internet's first built-in webmail language translation, ePALS has allowed people in 191 countries, speaking 136 languages to have meaningful contact with each other. Our safety innovations, such as monitored email and profanity filters, have helped to make ePALS the leading provider of email technology in schools worldwide.
HEROES is committed to promoting the educational, social and emotional development of profoundly gifted students by facilitating the creation of educational resources for the profoundly gifted and informing parents, educators and profoundly gifted students about appropriately challenging educational opportunities.
This website is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity.
Through its online resources and ideas, expanding collection of print materials, outreach efforts, and downloadable public service announcements, Tolerance.org promotes and supports anti-bias activism in every venue of American life.
The Scottish Executive has established the Network so that teachers, parents and young people can share ideas about how bullying should be tackled. It is freely open to all.
Bullyonline.org is an online tool that discusses bullying in the workplace, family bullying and school bullying. "If you know someone who is being bullied or harassed, the knowledge on this site will make a big difference to them; it may save their life."
Bullying UK is a comprehensive website that helps parents, teachers, and students identify signs that the child is being bullied. From keeping a school record and working with the school to the laws about bullying, this website provides valuable information to help children, educators, and parents end bullying.
"Bullying.org is dedicated to increasing the awareness of, and the problems associated with, bullying and to preventing, resolving, and eliminating bullying in society."
"Bullystoppers.com is a bullying information and reporting website developed and maintained by Tom Letson, MA LPC LCADC, a NJ Public Middle School Student Assistance Coordinator. Tom's mission is to provide guidance and consultation to school districts in implementing anonymous reporting methods for students to safely inform staff about bullying, bias and hazing occurring at school."
This article, by Roy F. Baumeister, Jennifer D. Campbell, Joachim I. Krueger and Kathleen D. Vohs, discusses how people are consumed by building their self-worth. "Boosting people's sense of self-worth has become a national preoccupation. Yet surprisingly, research shows that such efforts are of little value in fostering academic progress or preventing undesirable behavior."
The aim of Children's Express, a registered charity, is to bring the voice of young people to a wide audience and through our work with young people have a long term impact on:
confidence and self-esteem
literacy and academic performance
leadership and ability to work in teams
oral and written communication skills
social skills and independence
expectations of future prospects
This article discusses challenges to adjustment and coping strategies. The adjustment section discusses ownership, dissonance, taking risks, competing expectations, and more.
This brief article gives parents suggestions on how to help their middle school child deal with bullying and other mean behavior often encountered during middle school. Suggestions include talking with your child not only about being bullied, but to make sure your child isn't doing the bullying, and also what he/she can do if he/she sees someone else being bullied. The article is too brief to give much in the way of insight for parents, however it does provide some good common sense strategies as a place to start if one's child is dealing with this issue.
Posted on the website KidsGoals.com, this information gives parents advice on how to keep thier bullied kids from suffering with low self-esteem and depression. Parents are reminded that bullying can take many forms other than physical abuse. Teasing, name-calling, or even sending abusive messages is also considered bullying and must be taken seriously.
This article discusses the issues that children face with school cliques. This is a great aricle for students and parents.
Schoolwide Prevention of Bullying is a booklet from a series that discusses the important and ever increasing issue of bullying. "These reports briefly address current educational concerns and issues as indicated by requests for information that come to the Laboratory from the Northwest region and beyond. Each booklet in the series contains a discussion of research and literature pertinent to the issue, a sampling of how Northwest schools are addressing the issue, suggestions for adapting these ideas to schools, selected references, and contact information."
As a culture, we are focusing new attention on childhood bullying and harassment. As we watch children being crushed by bullying, we often feel powerless. No more! There are ways to stop bullying, based on decades of research. There is little need to describe why people want to stop childhood bullying. Childhood bullies are more likely to become young adult criminals than are non-bullies. Bullied children may grow up with diminished self-confidence. The links on this site will lead you through an exploration of interventions that work to reduce bullying in schools.
This website discusses why kids bully, the effects of bullying and what you can do about it. Welcome to the Take a Stand. Lend a Hand. Stop Bullying Now! Campaign web site. Whether you've been bullied, you've witnessed bullying, you've bullied others or you're just curious - we think you'll have a lot of fun and learn a lot of things while you're here!
So ... take your time and take a look around. Watch a really neat Webisode in our sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always entertaining series. Take an online survey about bullying. Play some cool games. Learn a thing or two about bullying and how to do something about it!
This mixed media kit for exploring feelings awareness contains a coloring/learning book, poster, lotto/bingo game, 60-minute audio tape, laminated coloring place mat, feelings awareness chart and a "How-To" curriculum/activity guide, is intended to enhance self-esteem, promote character building, improve interpersonal relationships, teach feelings awareness and expression and stimulate creativity and imagination.