Presented by: Bully Intervention Experts

Dr. Susan Lipkins and Dr. Karen Siris, will demonstrate ways to effectively prevent and intervene in bullying and cyberbullying situations.

The New York State Dignity for All Students Act requires that all schools have an effective bully prevention plan and appropriately trained personnel in each school building by July, 2012.

This conference will:

• Empower attendees to feel competent and capable to stop bullying in their schools.

• Demonstrate a Bully Intervention Team model

• Provide strategies to support victims and bystanders and increase the pro-social behaviors of bullies

• Explain how to institute a multi-tiered incident reporting system

• Teach interview strategies to be used after an incident and suggest appropriate disciplinary measures

• Develop a plan that creates a positive climate and a “Caring Majority” in the school community.

Participants: k-12 School teams (administrators, teachers, counselors)

Dr. Susan Lipkins, psychologist and author, has been interviewed about bullying, hazing and violence in schools on Oprah, The Today Show, news shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN. NPR, and in hundreds of other tv, radio and print venues including the New York and Los Angeles Times. For further information visit www.realpsychology.com

Dr. Karen Siris, principal and professor has been featured on NBC and CBS News and ivillage.com for the work she has done creating a Caring Majority of "upstanding" students in her Long Island School. Her research on Alleviating Bullying received the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from Hofstra University.

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For more information about bullying go to Inside Bullying