Our Core Values
- Building Collective Knowledge Among Professionals for Overcoming Cyberbullying
- Embracing Collaboration Across Multiple Fields
- Responding with Professionalism and Care
- Providing Opportunities for Continuing Education
- Giving Intentionally to Support Safe School Initiatives
- Encouraging Communities to Advance Our Mission
Our Purpose
PLUS3FORCYBERSAFETY exists to provide guidance and educational resources on how to overcome cyberbullying in our communities for aspiring school personnel and those currently serving the schools.
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The Meaning of Our Brand Colors
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Building peaceful and understanding relationships among students to prevent cyberbullying
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Teaching students to have hope, inner strength and resilience in adversity.
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Helping those who are victimized by cyberbullying and empowering them to overcome it.
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Remembering those who took their own lives due to relentless cyberbullying.
What is Cyberbullying?
- the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.“children may be reluctant to admit to being the victims of cyberbullying”
59% of American teenagers have experienced cyberbullying.
33% of middle schools reported cyberbullying among students (in the US).
In a survey of 30 countries, one in three students said they’d been a victim of cyberbullying. Of those students, one in five said they’d skipped school because of cyberbullying and violence.
When it comes to lifetime figures, 59.2% of girls and 49.5% of boys in the age group 13-17 have experienced cyberbullying.
18% of teens view cyberbullying as the biggest cause of a mental health crisis.
The top three countries where parents reported the most cyberbullying are India at 38%, Brazil at 29%, and the U.S. at 26%.
International Cyberbullying Resources
- StopBullying.gov
- The Cybersmile Foundation
- Cyberbullying Research Center
- STOMP Out Bullying®
- School Safety > Bullying and Cyberbullying
- Resources on Bullying and Cyberbullying of Native Youth
- eSafety Commissioner
- International Association of Chiefs of Police
- National Crime Prevention Council
- Journal of Pediatric Health Care
- David’s Legacy
- Bullying and Cyberbullying Increasing in Preadolescent Children
- Cyberbullying linked with suicidal thoughts and attempts in young adolescents, National Institute of Health
- Cyberbullying on Social Media: Definitions, Prevalence, and Impact Challenges, Oxford Academic, Journal of Cybersecurity
- Confronting Bullying in the Cyber Age, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Publication: Youth and Cyberbullying: Another Look, Harvard
- Harvard University student creates keyboard app that fights cyberbullying
- Cyberbullying and Mental Health: Past, Present and Future. National Library of Medicine.
- Associations between cyberbullying and school bullying victimization and suicidal ideation, plans and attempts among Canadian schoolchildren. National Library of Medicine.