Teen Pop Sensation Kady Richards Song "Breathe" Featured As Project Anti Bully Song Of The Week

LOS ANGELES - April 21, 2013 - PRLog -- Teen pop sensation Kady Richards aligns her beliefs and efforts with Project Anti-Bully.  Kady is proud to have her highly anticipated release 'Breathe" featured by Project Anti Bully.  Project Anti Bully is a non-profit organization that raises awareness of the prevalence of bullying in schools globally. PAB's headquaters are currently located in fourteen different countries USA, Canada, Mexico, China, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia. England, New Zealand, Philippines, Germany, Twain, and Australia. Fabianna Pergolizzi, who is currently a senior majoring in Psychology and Pre-law at Georgetown University, founded Project Anti-Bully in 2006.

In 2005, Fabianna Pergolizzi had received a calendar from CAPS (Children's Abuse Preventive Services) that had enclosed information about a survey that CAPS had conducted in Long Island, New York that found the prevalence of bullying within their district. Motivated through her own bullying experiences, Fabianna Pergolizzi had decided to contact CAPS and ask to reproduce the same study within her own area Naples, FL within the 7th and 8th grade in her old middle school. She had also encouraged her friends Darren Richmond (Florida), Samantha Macario (California), Zoë Gan (North Carolina) and Paul Auster (Maryland) to also participate in her study by distributing surveys within their local middle schools in their areas. The surveys were distributed during first week of May in 2006 to public and private schools within their area.

By August 2006, Fabianna and Darren had collaborated together and collectively created an abstract with all of their results. Their results found that 86% of students daily were being bullied physically, emotionally, or mentally within their schools. In September of 2006, Project Anti-Bully had sent the abstract to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) with the hopes of Project Anti-Bully being able to present at the 160th Annual Conference in San Diego. Project Anti-Bully currently has three medical publications in the Journal of Medicine (2009), The Journal of School Violence (2008), and The International Journal of Adolescence Health (2011).

By January of 2007, Fabianna and Darren were officially accepted to present at the American Psychiatric Association, in May. Fabianna (first author), her Father Dr. Joseph Pergolizzi, Darren Richmond (second author) and his mother Dr. Charlotte Richmond, all attended the conference in San Diego. As Fabianna and Darren were presenting their findings, many well known persons were utterly shocked by their age of 16. At the end of their presentation, Fabianna was recognized as the youngest presenter in 160-year history of the APA, which was an extreme accomplishment. All of the investigators in Project Anti-Bully have been acknowledged for their courage to stand up against bullying by finding the prevalence of bullying in middle schools. Because of their efforts the members of Project Anti-Bully had received much media and press recognition. Fabianna had created Projet Anti-Bully's website in 2006, http://projectantibully.com

In 2007, Project Anti-Bully was accepted for a poster presentation for their second-year follow-up study in Boston, Massachusetts at the American Psychological Association's annual conference in August. Project Anti-Bully's second follow-up study had included additional schools and additional authors, however their results where shown to be consistent with a prevalence of 86% of students being bullied daily. In 2008 Fabianna and her team had received international recognition for their research when they were invited to present at the British Psychological Association at the Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.

Currently, Project Anti-Bully has grown into an extensive social network through Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ProjectAntiBully and Twitter (@proj_antibully). Project Anti-Bully's website mission is to encourage students to directly contact other students, our investigators, or advisors regarding their bullying situations for advice and suggestions. Through the use of their site, individuals can sign up to become a researcher, investigator, or a member of Project Anti-Bully, which would allow them to participate in current campaigns such as Chalk for Change and Hands for Courage, and host contests in their local area. Their goal is to spread awareness of the harmful effects of bullying while also educating professionals, parents, and teachers on strategies to create intervention based programs for their students and community. In 2012, Project Anti-Bully was filed as a non-profit organization. On January 23, 2013 PAB recieved their 501c3 status.

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