Bullying Resources

• Safe Return to School For All summarizes current evidence and best practices to help administrators, educators, and families and students—including students with disabilities—return to school safely in the context of COVID-19. The information provided is based on collaborative research from the NICHD-funded Washington University Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Institute of Human Development, and the Kennedy Krieger Institute (Maryland), in collaboration with the Special School District of St. Louis County, Missouri.
• StopBullying.gov (en español)
  This website, managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying.
  • NICHD adapted materials from StopBullying.gov into an online curriculum called Bullying: Be More Than a Bystander (PDF - 1.09 MB), which parents or educators can use to educate students about bullying.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (en español)
  The CDC maintains several pages relevant to bullying:
  • The Bully Round-Up tests kids' knowledge about bullying.
  • Electronic Aggression (PDF 161 KB)
    This page describes the potential for youth violence through technology and links to CDC resources on the topic, including Electronic Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers.
  • Safe Youth. Safe Schools. (en español)
    This landing page contains links to many pages and resources relevant to youth safety in and out of school.
  • About School Violence
    This page describes types of school violence and presents data on its occurrence.
  • Tourette Syndrome: Bullying (en español)
    This page contains information on bullying experienced by children with Tourette syndrome and offers links to resources.
  • Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere 
    This national initiative, led by CDC, takes a public health approach to preventing youth violence before it starts.
• HealthyChildren.org  (en español )
  This comprehensive child health website for parents, created by the American Academy of Pediatrics, presents Bullying: It's Not OK  (en español ), a page with information about bullying and how to help children who are victims of bullying or are bullies themselves.
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Family Resources 
  Among the resources for families related to child mental health offered by this site is Facts for Families: Bullying , which describes bullying and what parents can do to help children who are victims of bullying or who are bullying others.
• GirlsHealth.gov
  GirlsHealth.gov: Bullying offers girls ages 10 to 16 information about bullying and how to protect themselves.
• MedlinePlus (en español)
  MedlinePlus's page on bullying (en español) offers many resources relevant to this topic.
• National Crime Prevention Council 
  The Council's pages on bullying include Bullying: Information and Resources , which offers resources for parents, children, and law enforcement officers, and Cyberbullying , which contains resources for parents and children on this topic as well as PSAs and other resources.
• U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
  Prohibited Disability Harassment is an official letter from the Department of Education reminding educational institutions of their obligations to protect students with disabilities from harassment in school.
• National Education Association (NEA) 
  The NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me  is a pledge for adults to stand up against bullying.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Adolescent Health
  Bullying and Violence offers resources for parents on talking to their teens about bullying.
• National Women's Law Center (NWLC) 
  The NWLC offers resources related to Title IX, which prohibits gender-based discrimination or harassment based on sex in federally funded schools. Relevant pages include Sexual Harassment & Bullying , which offers resources for parents, students, and educators on preventing and responding to gender-based bullying. .
• PACER Center 
  PACER (Parents Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) offers many resources to help enhance quality of life for people with disabilities. Bullying prevention is one area of activity for PACER:
  • National Bullying Prevention Center 
    PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center unites, engages, and educates communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant, and interactive resources.
  • Teens Against Bullying 
    This site offers information and resources for teens to stop bullying in their communities.
  • Kids Against Bullying 
    This site offers information and resources aimed at kids who want to stop bullying in their schools.

• KidsHealth.org 
  Created by the Nemours Foundation, this site offers information for parents, kids, and teens about how to deal with bullying and prevent bullying.
  • Dealing with Bullies (for Kids)  [audio available] (en español )
  • Dealing with Bullying (for Teenagers) (English version)  [audio available] (en español) 
  • Teaching Kids Not to Bully (for Parents) (English version)  [audio available] (en español )

• U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) (en español)
  Offices within the U.S. DoJ offer fact sheets on bullying.
  • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention:
    • Bullying in Schools: An Overview (PDF 478 KB)
• Cartoon Network
  The Cartoon Network's Stop Bullying  campaign lets kids learn about bullying and its effects and take a pledge to stop bullying.

• Cyberbullying Research Center 
  This resource for parents, educators, law enforcement officers, counselors, and others who work with youth discusses the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.
• Committee for Children 
  This organization advocates for child health and well-being.

Please note: Links to organizations and information included on this page do not indicate endorsement from NICHD, NIH, or HHS.

• NICHD Spotlights about bullying:
  • Research Round-up: Youth Violence Prevention
  • NICHD Adapts New Resource for Bullying
  • Taking a Stand Against Bullying
  • Focus on Children's Mental Health Research at the NICHD
• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health, formerly the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) 
  This is the official website of the Add Health study.
• Bullying Research Network 
  This network at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln promotes and assists international collaboration among bullying and peer victimization researchers.
• Workplace Bullying Research at the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) 
  This webpage provides links to bullying studies conducted by the WBI.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  The CDC offers several relevant resources for educators and public health professionals:
  • Electronic Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers
  • Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
  • This provides information for researchers on bullying, bullying victimization, and bystander analysis.
• Office of the Surgeon General
  The Surgeon General's 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action addresses bullying as a risk factor for suicide and discusses interventions that target bullying and other forms of violence as well as suicide prevention.
• National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics: Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2015 (PDF - 2.82 MB)
  This report presents the most recent data available on school crime and student safety.
• American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement—Role of the Pediatrician in Youth Violence Prevention, 2009 
  This policy statement describes how pediatricians can contribute to preventing youth violence.
• Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summits
  Five summits have been held between 2010 and 2016. The summits are intended to engage representatives from federal agencies, national organizations, parents, teachers, and students in discussions about bullying and progress on anti-bullying efforts across the country. These links are provided for reference only.
  • First Bullying Summit (2010)
    • Keynote address from U.S. Education Secretary
  • Second Bullying Summit (2011)
    • Keynote address from U.S. Education Secretary
  • Third Bullying Summit (2012)
    • Press Release
    • Keynote address from U.S. Education Secretary (video) 

• • Fourth Bullying Summit (2014)
    • Stopbullying Blog summary
    • Opening remarks 
    • Plenary session: "Bullying Trends: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Now, and Where We Are Going" 
  • Fifth Bullying Summit (2016) 
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Model Programs Guides
  These guides are tools for educators and law enforcement organizations to implement evidence-based programs. The OJJDP Model Program Guide: Bullying and Steps to Respect^®: A Bullying Prevention Program are two of these resources relevant to bullying.

Please note: Links to organizations and information included on this page do not indicate endorsement from NICHD, NIH, or HHS.