Applications are no longer being accepted for participation in the PA CARES (Creating an Atmosphere of Respect and Environment for Success) program, made available through funding from Highmark Healthy High 5 to the Center for Safe Schools (CSS).
CSS is in the process of reviewing applications received to date; grants will soon be awarded to schools to implement the research-based Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) during the 2011-2012 school year.
If you have submitted an application, you will soon be receiving notification about the status of your submission.
Please check back to this site for a full listing of schools that received grants for the upcoming school year.
The HALT! program, launched in 2006, has reached capacity with 164 schools within 41 school districts across Pennsylvania. Implemented on a district-wide level, HALT! is managed by the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at Windber Research Institute.
Download a PDF summary of current research on the effectiveness of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.
Watch a video about bullying featuring Dr. Dan Olweus, an author, researcher and world-renowned expert on bullying behaviors. Dr. Olweus is best known for conducting the first intervention study against bullying, the results of which are the basis of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. Running time 5:24. Replayed with permission from the Hazelden Foundation.