Teachers and school staff play a key role in supporting healthy relationships and promoting a safe positive school environment. When teachers promote healthy relationships where students feel accepted and experience a sense of belonging, bullying can be prevented. Providing curriculum supports, supportive social and physical environments, and resources for students can promote healthy relationships and reduce the number of bullying incidences. Halton Region provides teachers/school staff with the following resources to help create safe, positive environments for students.
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Elementary
- Connect[ED] – Ophea (external link) (for grades 4-6)
A free online resource designed to help students develop safe and healthy online behaviours, such as netiquette, security, personal privacy and relationships. It also teaches students how to recognize and manage cyberbullying.
- Cybercops - Ophea (external link)
Teaches students in grades 7 and 8 about the risks and safety issues of the Internet and helps them recognize and respond to these situations.
- Mirror Image (external link) (for grade 7 students)
Introduces students to three criminal behaviours – cyberstalking, Internet luring and child pornography.
- Air Dogs (external link) (for grade 8 students)
Designed to make young teenagers aware of the consequences of credit card fraud, software piracy and bullying.
- Halton Regional Police Services (external link)
The Halton Regional Police Service Education Services Unit provides safety awareness and education programs to youth from Kindergarten to grade 8 in the Halton District Public and Halton District Catholic School Boards.
- Playground Activity Leaders in Schools (P.A.L.S.)
Peer-led playground leadership program that encourages all children to participate in activities regardless of their gender, size or ability.
- Safe@School (external link)
A multi-faceted bullying prevention project that includes resources and an online teacher training module designed to benefit teachers, students, parents and school communities.
Elementary & secondary
- ABCs of Mental Health-Teacher Resource - Bullying (external link)
Investigates bullying behaviours and intervention strategies for a range of student age groups.
- Halton Multicultural Council (external link)
A volunteer-run council with members representing a number of cultural groups that provides social programs to the community. School Host Program is a free service offered to schools across Halton Region aiming to help integrate children who are new to Canada.
- Halton Regional Police Services (external link)
- PEACE Youth Leadership Program (external link)
Police Ethnic and Cultural Education (PEACE) promotes understanding and cultural awareness among high school students since 1988. Through in-class sessions and realistic scenarios at HRPS, PEACE students improve their cultural proficiency, communication, and leadership skills and experience all aspects of policing.
- Lions Quest Canada (external link)
A registered charitable organization dedicated to fostering positive youth development by producing and sharing effective tools to empower and unite caring adults in all aspects of young people's lives. This will support your school’s work in DA.
- Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence (PREVNet) (external link)
A comprehensive website whose goal is to translate and exchange knowledge about bullying to enhance awareness, to provide assessment and intervention tools, and to promote policy related to the problems of bullying.
- Red Cross (external link)
Programs to promote healthier relationships and safer communities through education and partnerships.
- Restorative Practices (external link)
Assists teachers, students and parents with building, maintaining and restoring relationships.
- Roots of Empathy (external link)
An evidence-based classroom program that reduces levels of aggression among school children by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy. HCDSB has trained some staff as Roots of Empathy Instructors.
- Halton District School Board (external link)
Resources and videos on bullying prevention.
- Halton Catholic District School Board (external link)
Resources and videos on bullying prevention.
- Tribes (external link)
A process where educators learn to create a positive school or classroom environment. The Tribes process is an effective way to improve student behaviour and learning.
- Violence Prevention Works: Safer Schools, Safer Communities (external link)
Information about bullying, cyberbullying and dating violence. It includes the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, which is designed to improve peer relations and make schools safer, more positive places for students to learn and develop.
Elementary
Elementary & secondary
- Be Web Aware (external link)
A national, bilingual public education program on Internet safety.
- The Boomerang Project - a Peer Mentorship Program (external link)
The program "Link Crew" is a high school transition program that will increase attendance, decrease discipline referrals and improve academic performance at your school.
- Centre for Disease Control: School Connectedness (external link)
Strategies that teachers, administrators, other school staff and parents can implement to increase the extent to which students feel connected to school. Students who feel connected to their school are more likely to have better academic achievement, have better school attendance and stay in school longer.
- Centre for Disease Control: Bullying Research (external link)
Information and resources on bullying, electronic aggression, youth violence prevention and safe schools.
- Character Matters (external link)
Information on Character Education principles and strategies to create schools in which positive attitudes, values and behaviours are fostered.
- Cyberbullying.ca (external link)
Tips for preventing, recognizing and coping with electronic bullying for children and parents/guardians.
- Cybertip (external link)
Cybertip.ca is Canada's national tip line for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. Provides information for parents on what they can do to improve their child's safety on the Internet.
- International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) (external link)
Restorative practices is a new field of study that has the potential to positively influence human behaviour and strengthen civil society around the world.
- Kids in the Know (external link)
An interactive Internet safety education program designed for children, parents and educators to help increase the personal safety of children and reduce their risk of sexual exploitation.
- Lions Quest Canada (external link)
A registered charitable organization dedicated to fostering positive youth development by producing and sharing effective tools to empower and unite caring adults in all aspects of young people's lives.
- Ministry of Education: Promoting a Positive School Climate (external link)
“Promoting a Positive School Climate” is a resource that provides examples of practices and activities that will help your school improve its overall school climate.
- Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence (PREVNet) (external link)
A comprehensive website that translates and exchanges knowledge about bullying to enhance awareness, to provide assessment and intervention tools, and to promote policy related to the problems of bullying.
- Red Cross - Respect Ed (external link)
A program to promote healthier relationships and safer communities through education and partnerships.
- Roots of Empathy (external link)
An evidence-based classroom program that reduces levels of aggression among school children by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.
- Safe School Ambassadors (SSA) (external link)
This program empowers leaders from the diverse groups and cliques on campus and equips them with nonviolent communication and intervention skills to stop bullying and violence among their peers.
- School Connectedness Game (PDF file)
An interactive game for school administrators and staff members to learn strategies to improve school connectedness and promote a positive school climate.
- Search Institute: Developmental Assets (external link)
Grounded in extensive research in youth development, resiliency and prevention, the Developmental Assets represent the relationships, opportunities and personal qualities that young people need to avoid risks and to thrive.
Elementary
Elementary & secondary
- Canadian Mental Health Association (external link)
An organization that provides resources and information on a variety of mental health issues. Bullying resources are available through the Mental Health Resource Library accessible from this site.
- Halton Multicultural Council (external link)
A volunteer-run council with members representing a number of cultural groups that provides social programs to the community. School Host Program is a free service offered to schools across Halton Region that helps to integrate children who are new to Canada.
- Halton Regional Police Services (external link)
Programs for youth, such as PEACE and "Give Respect Get Respect.”
- Lions Quest Canada (external link)
A registered charitable organization dedicated to fostering positive youth development by producing and sharing effective tools to empower and unite caring adults in all aspects of young people's lives.
- Our Kids Network (external link)
A community-based initiative that can assist with coordinating and providing services, resources and support for families, schools and the community.
- Red Cross (external link)
Programs to promote healthier relationships and safer communities through education and partnerships.
- Roots of Empathy (external link)
An evidence-based classroom program that reduces levels of aggression among school children by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.