Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Youth and Cyber-Bullying. What Parents don’t know CAN hurt them

Cyber-Bullying  is becoming an ever-growing problem with today's youth. This featured workshop at "It Takes a Village to Create Change" conference will help you understand what you can do to protect your children and family



Presenter: Anti-Defamation League



Description:
With today s increasing access to online technology, the Internet has become a vehicle for propagating hatred and intolerance based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and the like. Electronic media like cell phone text messaging, chat rooms and online instant messaging have become increasingly popular among young people as ways to intimidate, harass and humiliate one another. Whether these kinds of cyberbullying are related to race or religion or some other difference or because of some other characteristic, such as physical appearance or personality, they can produce devastating consequences for the targets.

The A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute developed Youth and Cyberbullying: What Families Don t Know Can Hurt Them to help adult family members understand the language, skills, information and challenges associated with cyberbullying. This knowledge will assist families in helping their children/teens respond in appropriate ways to incidents of cyberbullying and in promoting safe and respectful online environments for all people. The training serves as one of the Institute s many ways to address bias and discrimination, and promote safety and inclusion for all.

Program Goals:

1. To increase understanding and awareness about the problem of cyber-bullying.

2. To educate and empower adult family members to effectively discuss and respond to their children and teen's experiences with cyberbullying.

3. To provide adult family members with the tools/skills needed to educate their children/teens in responding to cyberbullying and in being allies to others.


Youth and Cyber Bullying- What Parents Don't Know CAN Hurt Them by the Anti-Defamation League 


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