Helpful Youth Strategies
According to The Youth Voice Project, the strategies bullied children identified as most helpful and least helpful are listed below.
MOST HELPFUL strategies:
- Told an adult at home
- Told a friend
- Made a joke about it
- Told an adult at school
- Reminded myself that it was not my fault
LEAST HELPFUL strategies:
- Hit or fought back
- Made a plan to get back at them
- Told the person to stop
- Did nothing (ignored it)
- Told them how I felt
Looking at these lists, the most helpful strategies are ones that involve getting help from an adult or a friend. The least helpful strategies involve being aggressive or ignoring it. It is important to communicate the importance that adults and bystanders appropriately support and respond to students experiencing bullying.
