NAPPP Webinar: Bullying Prevention and Intervention for Schools: Peer to Peer Strategies

March 13, 2012 - PRLog -- Presenter: Dr. Judith Tindall
Time & Dates: 2 sessions
11:00 AM Eastern and 1:00 PM Eastern, Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

Viewers will learn
Bullying is considered one of the top public health issues in the country according to the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit 2011. Bullying can impact the victims for a lifetime through depression, anxiety, low self esteem and relationship issues; bullies can grow up without development of social emotional skills and become more destructive. Bystanders often do nothing or do not know what to do, even through research indicates that bystanders can be helping to the victim, bully and school environment.

The 90-minute research based webinar will focus on how to utilize the power of peers in prevention and intervention. Formal student peer programs will be discussed in terms of strategies for ongoing peer programs to infuse bullying prevention/intervention into their programming as well as helping train other student leaders to move from bystanders to interveners. Specific examples of model peer programs and how they infuse bullying prevention/intervention into their activities will be discussed. Examples of training materials to help train selected student leaders in becoming interveners will also be discussed. Examples from St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri, Baldwin County Schools, Alabama, and Richmond, Indiana will share some of their best practices in bullying prevention/intervention from a peer program model. The webinar will be based on the following the National Association of Peer Program Professionals (NAPPP) Programmatic Standards and Ethics.

School professionals will learn specific strategies that can be used to help peer programs deal with prevention/intervention strategies for bullying and will receive skills that peer leaders can utilize to make their school environment safer for all concerned.

Topics will include:

•   Updated information on bullying impact with the victim, bully and bystanders
•   Role of student peer programs in bullying prevention/intervention
•   Examples of peer programs and their strategies in implementing model for prevention/intervention will be demonstrated
•   How to set up a peer program that follows NAPPP Programmatic Standards
•   Steps involved with setting up strategies that are student peer led
•   Appropriate and inappropriate roles for peer leaders
•   Skills needed to teach peer leaders for bullying prevention/intervention
•   How to train peer leaders to move from bystanders to interveners
•   How peer programs fit into a bigger bullying prevention/intervention school program
•   Bullying prevention/intervention activities in action

The webinar will provide:
•   An understanding of bullying impact
•   An overview of peer programs
•   Examples of model student peer programs in action
•   Research that supports peer programs and bullying prevention/intervention
•   Activities for peer leaders
•   Strategies to assist peer bystanders to become interveners.
•   An opportunity to learn about NAPPP
The webinar is recommended for:
•   Current peer helping professionals (CPPE) attempting to get CEU’s
•   School professionals interested in starting a peer to peer program to reduce bullying
•   School Counselors
•   Social Workers
•   After-school Coordinators
•   School Resource Officers
•   School Administrators
•   Residential Hall Managers, Advisors
•   Peer Education Higher Education Sponsors

Participants Receive:
A PDF handout with the power point slides, along with a resource packet will be emailed to each registrant to accompany the live presentation. Participants will be e-mailed a CEU certificate from the National Association of Peer Program Professionals.

Presenter:
Judith A. Tindall, Ph.D. is President of Psychological Network, Inc., a full service psychological group in St. Charles, Mo. She is licensed as a psychologist, professional counselor and certified teacher, counselor, NAPPP Certified Trainer/Consultant, CPPE, and MBTI Master Practitioner.

She has written the following books: Program Evaluation for Peer and Prevention Programs: Blueprint for Success; Peer Program: An In-Depth look at Peer Programs, second edition; Peer Helping: Peer Power, Book 1: Becoming an Effective Peer Helper and Conflict Mediator, Fourth Edition and Professional Leaders Manual; Peer Power, Book 2, Applying Peer Helping Skills, Third Edition and Professional Leaders Manual; Peers Helping Peers: Program for the Preadolescent and Leader’s Manual, 3R’s of Feeling: Receiving, Reflecting, and Responding.

She is the president of the NAPPP Board of Directors, is secretary of the BACCHUS Peer Education Network Board of Trustees and vice-president of the National Organizations of Youth Safety (NOYS) Board of Directors. She was recently invited to attend two National Bullying Summits in Washington D.C., sponsored by nine federal agencies.  

To Attend:
Register for only $49 per person (group discounts available). Please visit http://www.dev-resources.com/search_new?p=webinars or call 1-800-251-6805

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