Celebrate National Bullying Prevention Month with No Bully

October is National Bullying Prevention Month!

For No Bully, this month highlights our year-round goal to build a kinder and more compassionate world as a means of ending the crisis of bullying in schools and online.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the location of bullying from schools and playgrounds to cyberbullying online, the pain and damage to the health and well-being of students continue. Now more than ever, schools, students, parents, teachers and communities need No Bully’s approach to transforming school culture and empowering young people as the primary leaders of bullying eradication.

We’ve cultivated a series of events throughout the month to raise awareness and discuss how we can all impact children’s lives by stopping bullying. Below is a list of our key events, and you can always learn more at Nobully.org.

As you review our events, please consider a gift to No Bully. Your gift to No Bully directly benefits students, teachers and schools through our programs and services that are urgently needed to respond to the challenges of online learning and social media as the venues where bullying takes place now. Every gift to No Bully, whether large or small, is an investment in a more-inclusive future and makes a difference in helping young people find their voice to lead the culture change needed in classrooms, playgrounds, neighborhoods and online.

No Bully: National Bullying Prevention Month Events

Tuesday, Oct. 13: Interview with author Antonio Lumley

Antonio Lumley, the author of the children’s book "Brook & Brax: Undercover Ninjas" and even more recently, "Brook & Brax vs. Pandemik," a children’s comic book with COVID-19 at its center. Both the book and the comic book would be great reading for children ages 7–13.

Thursday, Oct. 15: Go Purple for LGBTQ+ Youth with GLAAD

LGBTQ youth disproportionately face bullying and harassment because of their identities. Each year, millions go purple for Spirit Day to support LGBTQ youth in a united stand against bullying. Pledging to “go purple” on Spirit Day is a way for everyone — global and local brands and companies, world leaders, celebrities, neighbors, parents, classmates and friends — to visibly show solidarity with youth and to take part in the largest, most-visible LGBTQ anti-bullying campaign in the world.

Friday, Oct. 16: Stand Up to Cyberbullying

Join No Bully and Nepris as we bring real-world, authentic learning opportunities to students to create the next generation of innovators. Through 30-minute virtual sessions and digital content, our professionals bring educators and program providers engaging content to connect their students to the world of STEM. For middle school and high school students.

Wednesday, Oct. 21: Unity Day Student Interviews with Patch

Patch’s Menace of Bullies national reporting and advocacy project, now in its third year, is designed to raise awareness about the confounding national crisis of bullying and cyberbullying. In a nationwide series of reports, Patch journalists share stories of bullying and torment across the United States, and what schools, parents and others are doing to protect children.

Patch proudly partners with No Bully in this endeavor. On Unity Day, Oct. 21, No Bully and Patch will publish video interviews from several “upstanders,” kids as young as 5 and as old as 17, who have made a difference in the lives of their peers by calling out bullying.

They’ll share what it means to be upstanders, what they’d like for others to understand about bullying and what they think should be done about it.

Patch is a hyperlocal news and community platform serving 1,200 communities across the United States. Read more from the Menace of Bullies series.

Friday, Oct. 23: Special interview with Tina Long and bully prevention specialist Rick Shaw

Join us in a conversation with Tina Long, who lost her son Tyler to peer abuse driven by bullycide when he was only 17 years old. Their story is told in the documentary, "Bully." Tina will be joined by special guest Rick Shaw, prevention specialist and thought leader in the field of failed interventions and preventions.

Thursday, Oct. 29: A discussion about protecting LGBTQ+ youth: Live panel

Did you know nearly half of transgender youth have been bullied on school property? The data shows that LGBTQ+ youth are vulnerable to bullying, violence and suicide. In fact, LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to be bullied than their straight, cisgender counterparts, according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.