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Mental Health America provides information for parents about bullying. Check out their Bullying: Tips for Parents.

The Committee for Children advocates to support and develop educational programs that advance safety and well being of children through social emotional learning (SEL). The Bullying Prevention Resources page is aimed to provide information and resources for students and adults to help understand what bullying is, who may be affected by bullying, and our community can prevent bullying.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education's Office for Safe Schools has maintains a webpage to provide resources for parents, educators, and professionals serving children and youth about Bullying Prevention.

Common Sense Media is on a mission to "make the digital world better for kids and families." Discover on their website information about media ratings and reviews, curriculum, digital literacy, recent research, advocacy, digital equity, and tech accountability. Explore their website at Common Sense Media.

Cyberbullying refers to bullying that takes place online as opposed to in person. The JED Foundation provides resources for families on:

• How to Recognize if You are Being Cyberbullied
• What to Do if You are Being Cyberbullied
• What to Do if you are the Cyberbully
• When You See Others Being Cyberbullied, Be a Cyber-Upstander

Find information about Cyberbullying at the Jed Foundation.

The Cyberbullying Research Center provides up to date information about cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying is defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices (Cyberbullying Research Center).

• What is Bullying
• What is Cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying Statistics
• Cyberbullying Presentations - Keynotes and Webinars
• Resources for Educators
• Resources for Parents
• Resources for Youth
• Reporting Cyberbullying

Nemours Children's Health provides parents and teens information on Cyberbullying, how to use technology appropriately, and how to be safe online.

• What is Cyberbullying?
• Online Safety
• Protecting Your Online Identity and Reputation
• Dealing with Bullying

UNICEF believes that every child has the right to grow up in a safe and inclusive environment. This article was developed in partnership with UNICEF specialists, experts in cyberbullying and child protection, along with social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, TickTok, adn X.

• Article: Cyberbullying: What is it and how to stop it

Discord is a popular chat app through mobile and PC. Popular in the gaming world, Discord allows people to chat in real time via text, voice, or video. Common Sense Media provides a resource to parents titled, Parents' Ultimate Guide to Discord (2024), and provides you everything you need to know about this app.

Snapchat, one of the most widely used messaging app, allows users to share pictures, videos, and messages. Called Snaps, these messages are meant to disappear after viewed. This resource, Parents' Ultimate Guide to Snapchat, gives parents the inside scoop on how it works, how to monitor, and how to make sure your preteens and teens are safe.

Common Sense Media provides parent tips, FAQs and resources. Here is a quick list of guides by platform.

• TikTok
• Snapchat
• Minecraft
• Roblox
• Fortnite
• Discord
  
• Instagram