Bullying Prevention Forum:How to Handle and Prevent Bullying in Schools and Workplaces

Bullying Prevention Forum: How to Handle and Prevent Bullying in Schools and Workplaces

School bullying is not what it used to be.

The new Students’ Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, signed into law in New Jersey in January, 2011, has been
described as the toughest state law about school bullying in the nation.  What does this law mean for students,
parents, and schools?  This program will
cover the basics of bullying: what it is, why it is so harmful, what parents can do about it, what teenagers need to know, and what the new law means for
all of us. The kind of bullying that goes on in schools today is not like the playground bullying most parents remember from their own school days. Many parents, remembering their own school days, tell their sons and daughters to ignore bullying, to toughen up, or to use humor.  These strategies might not work today,especially in the case of cyber bullying.  Bullying today is very serious; in some
schools in the United States, school bullying has led to school shootings and suicides, and many more students across the country are afraid to go to school or have trouble concentrating in class because they are afraid. Come find out what you can do to help your school prevent bullying, what your child’s school should be doing, and what to do to help your son or daughter if bullying is happening

Bio:  Dr. Paula C. Rodríguez
Rust is an East Brunswick resident and owner of Spectrum Diversity LLC, providing professional development and consulting services to schools and community groups throughout New Jersey. She specializes in the prevention of bullying and prejudice, and has been a diversity educator since 1987. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and has served on harassment grievance boards
and on the New Jersey Special Task Force on Bullying and Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention.  Dr. Rodriguez
Rust has appeared as an expert on the newsmagazine 20/20, and has been quoted in numerous magazines and newspapers,including Newsweek.

Please register online at www.wtpl.org

Professional development
certificates will be available for educators who contact Dr. Rust at DrPaula@spectrumdiversity.org to give her their name and school affiliation and request a certificate prior to the date of the workshop.