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IBPA Collaborative Public Health Approach
The Impact of a Collaborative Public Health Approach to Bullying Prevention was presented on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 during the International Bullying Prevention Association's annual conference held in Pittsburgh. This session discussed the collaboration and impact of a partnership between the Highmark Foundation through its Highmark Healthy High 5 initiative, the PA Department of Education, public schools, consulting universities and a regional health care system to reduce social health consequences of school-based bullying in Pennsylvania.

IBPA Bullying Prevention Successes
PA CARES and HALT! Programs: Bullying Prevention Successes at the School Level was presented on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 during the International Bullying Prevention Association's annual conference held in Pittsburgh. This session highlighted the efforts of Pennsylvania schools that successfully institutionalized bullying prevention principles and practices through programs funded by Highmark Healthy High 5, an initiative of the Highmark Foundation.

Association Between Bullying and Psychosomatic Problems
Paper published by Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), discusses the correlation between bullying and psychosomatic problems. The study supports the AAP’s recent statement that bullying be treated as a significant international public health issue.

Bullying Among Young Adolescents: The Strong, the Weak, and the Troubled
Article that first appeared in Pediatrics presents theories on how bullying and being bullied affect the well-being and adaptive functioning of youth. Includes psychological and social problems exhibited by bullies, victims and bullyvictims based on a sample of African-American and Latino sixth graders from urban communities with a low socioeconomic status.

Bullying Prevention: A Statewide Collaborative That Works
Report first presented at the International Bullying Prevention Association Annual Conference in November 2009. Features three years of data on the implementation of the HALT! and PA CARES bullying prevention programs, which are funded through Highmark Healthy High 5. Includes students’ reports of bullying others and being bullied, students’ perceptions of adults’ responsiveness to bullying, students’ attitudes about bullying and teachers’ perceptions of bullying and school actions to address bullying within these Pennsylvania program schools.

Companion Bibliography (for OBPP), Grades K-12
Targeted bibliography that provides student literature selections and resources for educators and parents. Designed for use by classroom teachers and school personnel charged with implementing bullying prevention efforts or selecting student and adult literature to support those efforts. May be best used as a resource for schools implementing OBPP classroom meetings to facilitate academic connections with bullying prevention themes.

Direct and Indirect Aggression During Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta-Analytic Review of Gender Differences, Intercorrelations, and Relations to Maladjustment
Article that first appeared in Child Development offers a review of 148 studies on gender differences in children and adolescents pertaining to direct and indirect forms of aggression.

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program: Implementation and Evaluation over Two Decades
60-page report, which will appear in The International Handbook of School Bullying to be published by Routledge.

Olweus Program Effectiveness
A summary of current research on the effectiveness of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which has been successfully implemented in schools worldwide.

Peer Exclusion and Victimization: Processes That Mediate the Relation Between Peer Group Rejection and Children’s Classroom Engagement and Achievement?
Article that first appeared in the Journal of Educational Psychology presents data from a study of kindergarten through fifth graders that examined peer exclusion and abuse and how it predicts changes in classroom participation and school avoidance.

What works in preventing bullying: effective elements of anti-bullying programs
Paper published in the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research summarizes the results of a review of 59 reports describing high-quality evaluations of 30 anti-bullying programs in schools. Components associated with a decrease in bullying include parent training, improved playground supervision, disciplinary methods, school conferences, videos, information for parents, work with peers, classroom rules and classroom management.