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Don't Be A Bully Conference

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The 4th Annual "Don't Be a Bully Conference" is growing and expanding each year.
For 2015, the Bridging the Gap-Where Hope is Born (BTG) conference on October 17 will be nothing short of phenomenal with professional experts facilitating a number of workshops. The free workshops and inspirational speakers will educate and empower youth, and their families, to be "More than a bystander, Less of a victim and Better than a Bully.”
BTG welcomes Mara Madrigal-Weiss, Project Specialist with the San Diego County Office of Education & Co-Chair of The International Bullying Prevention Association, as the 2015 conference advisor, along with the San Diego Police Department, Southeastern Division, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, Training Center, and Project A.W.A.R.E. Through these partnerships we are able to increase our outreach throughout San Diego County to more schools and students.
MAKING AN IMPACT
We are grateful for our partnerships and dedicated volunteers and appreciate all their support. But we need our communities involved as never before to truly make a lasting difference!
In order to create the best possible experience for these teens, it takes a bounty of resources, financial and personal, to do our work. We can’t do it alone! In addition to dollars, our students will benefit from a broad-based commitment from community organizations and businesses to get directly involved with our anti-bullying efforts.
▪Financial contributions will help us purchase needed supplies and pay for services
$ 2,000: Printing materials for the Bully Program being taught in schools
$10,000: Conference costs for the 4th Annual Don’t’ Be a Bully Conference
$ 1,500: Supplies for the Bully Prevention Team classroom workshops
$ 7,500 (annually): Implementing the Anti-Bully Hotline
$ 750: DBAB T-Shirts for students participating in the programs
▪Personal contributions of volunteer time and professional skills will help us move the needle against bullying.
▪Additionally, sharing our Don’t Be a Bully message and campaign on your social networks will exponentially increase our outreach to and for our students.
We are thankful for the Martinez family for stepping up and taking a stand against bullying. By sharing their experience, it empowers others who are experiencing similar issues to do the same. The more bullying is talked about, the better opportunity we have to inform and educate all.
Visit the www.dontbeabullyconference.org website to fill out a volunteer form and join our team.

Bridging the Gap-Where Hope is Born, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was formed under the guidance Dr. Leroy Brady, Director of Business Technology at San Diego City College (SDCC) and the Small Business Entrepreneurial Program. ( BTG is a separate entity from San Diego City College and receives no institutional financial support). To help us continue our outreach and expansion to reach every school and student possible, your donations are welcomed.
From the BTG Team to all of you…thank you for your support!
Registration and workshop information: www.dontbeabullyconference.org
*All contributions are tax deductible |TAX ID # 46-5028565

In case you don’t think Bullying is a “real” issue:
• It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students.
• Harassment and bullying have been linked to 75% of school-shooting incidents.
• American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. (Dan Olweus, National School Safety Center.)
• Absenteeism is directly related to fears of being bullied at school.
• 1 out of 20 students has seen a student with a gun at school.
• 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month.
• 90 percent of 4th – 8th graders report being victims of bullying
• Among students, homicide perpetrators were more than twice as likely as homicide victims to have been bullied by peers.
• Bullying statistics say revenge is the strongest motivation for school shootings.
• 87% of students said shootings are motivated by a desire to "get back at those who have hurt them."
• 86% of students said, "other kids picking on them, making fun of them or bullying them" causes teenagers to turn to lethal violence in the schools.
• 61% of students said students shoot others because they have been victims of physical abuse at home.
• 54% of students said witnessing physical abuse at home can lead to violence in school.
• According to bullying statistics, 1 out of every 10 students who drops out of school does so because of repeated bullying.
Source: National Education Association

Organizer and beneficiary

Amy Michele Monzon
Organizer
Chula Vista, CA
Robert Crouse
Beneficiary

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