Another Faculty Member Joins Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA)

Oct. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- The Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA) is excited to announce the addition of another faculty member who will help provide bully prevention training to schools and youth organizations. Nancy Fox-Kilgore, M.S., will share her expertise in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sibling abuse and bullying during GAPRA training activities alongside the organization’s co-founders, Blair Wagner and Jane Balvanz.

Fox-Kilgore joins Christopher Burgess, Brenda Nixon and Sue Scheff in participating in expert training calls for GAPRA members. Additional information about GAPRA faculty can be found on the organization’s website 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 often the precursor to violence among children and 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 and youth organizations 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 can be found at: http://www.gapraconnect.com.

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The Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA) equips schools and youth organizations 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 http://www.gapraconnect.com.