Nancy Gruver Joins Faculty of Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA)

Feb. 14, 2012 - PRLog -- Nancy Gruver, Founder of New Moon Girls, has joined the faculty of the Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA). Gruver is the fifth national expert to step up to provide bully prevention training to parents, educators, schools and youth organizations. Gruver will share her passion for empowering girls to express themselves and embrace and share their individual gifts. She will take part in GAPRA training activities alongside the organization’s co-founders, Blair Wagner and Jane Balvanz.

“Nancy’s parenting knowledge and focus on empowering girls will greatly enhance the value of GAPRA individual memberships, as well as our organizational memberships,” said Wagner. “We can’t wait to hear her ideas about raising resilient, independent children who solve their own problems.”

Gruver joins a group that includes parenting, technology and bullying experts Nancy Fox-Kilgore, Christopher Burgess, Brenda Nixon and Sue Scheff. Details about the GAPRA faculty can be found at http://www.gapraconnect.com/faculty/.

The mission of GAPRA is to deliver “Hope and Help for Bullies, Targets and Bystanders of Emotional Bullying.” Relational aggression, a.k.a. emotional bullying, is verbal violence or exclusionary methods used among kids, and it has been linked to suicides. Annual membership in GAPRA offers schools and youth organizations affordable training for all staff members, volunteers, group leaders and parents.

Schools, youth organizations and now individuals can join GAPRA to receive access to these calls, which are recorded so all members can listen anytime, anywhere. Organizations who join GAPRA can invite all of their staff — including teachers, counselors, administrators and youth workers — as well as volunteers and parents, to listen to the training calls or read the transcripts. Information about joining GAPRA as an individual or organization can be found at: http://www.gapraconnect.com/join-gapra.

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A Way Through, LLC, provides hope and help for Targets, Bullies and Bystanders of emotional bullying through the When Girls Hurt Girls® program and the Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA).

The Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression equips schools, youth organizations, parents and educators with training, tools and support to reduce emotional bullying. The GAPRA co-founders also developed When Girls Hurt Girls®, an award-winning series of CDs, educational guides and other products, to empower girls in grades K-8 to solve their own friendship problems. For details, visit www.gapraconnect.com.