About the Toolkit

The Center for Safe Schools and the Highmark Foundation collaborated to develop Care. Connect. Champion: A Middle School Bullying Prevention Toolkit website that provides centralized, easy-to-use information, activities and best practices to encourage students to share their voice and engage in preventing bullying with the support of an adult school-based advisor.

For students, this toolkit highlights an educational piece on bullying prevention, guidance on developing a peer group and activities to rollout positive bullying prevention messages in their school and communities. 

This toolkit provides specific information for adult school-based advisors on school climate assessment tools, research and resources on bullying prevention and intervention, best practices in bullying prevention and intervention, and an educational piece to use with students. Tips on building relationships with students and building support within the school, activity examples, links and templates are also available to assist in building a campaign.

This toolkit provides specific information for adult school-based advisors on school climate assessment tools, research and resources on bullying prevention and intervention, best practices in bullying prevention and intervention, and an educational piece to use with students. Tips on building relationships with students and building support within the school, activity examples, links and templates are also available to assist in building a campaign.

Care. Connect. Champion: A Middle School Bullying Prevention Toolkit, is designed to:

Engage schools, students, parents and communities in local bullying prevention efforts.

Provide schools with key resources designed to support students in designing school-wide activities that highlight bullying prevention efforts.

Support a positive school climate.

Inspire and empower students to use their voice to impact positive changes in their educational environments.

Build positive peer-to-peer connections, and engage in leadership and advocacy skills so that young people make positive life decisions that will carry them into adulthood.

Written input and contributions were provided by our workgroup members.

  • Contrell Armor, Center for Schools and Communities
  • Dawn Bosley, Be the Change PA
  • Sally Canazaro, Center for Safe Schools
  • Mary Dolan, Pennsylvania Department of Education 
  • Jessica Doll, Be the Change PA
  • Nicole Fisher, Center for Schools and Communities
  • Randy Fox, Center for Safe Schools
  • Leah Galkowski, Center for Safe Schools
  • Kia Hansard, Center for Employment Opportunities
  • Kristen Herman, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
  • Dr. Sameer Hinduja, Cyberbullying Research Center
  • Geraldine Johnson, Cumberland Valley School District
  • Shileste Overton Morris, Center for Schools and Communities
  • Jane Riese, Clemson University

In addition to the workgroup and authors, the following individuals and schools contributed to the content and development of this toolkit.

  • Cash Cooper, Videographer
  • Dr. Charisse Nixon, Penn State Behrend
  • Cumberland Valley School District
  • Elizabethtown Area School District
  • South Middleton School District
  • Southwestern School District