Patch Partners With No Bully To Help Eradicate Bullying

One out of every three students is bullied in some form by their peers. Patch recognized the need to bring more awareness to this global issue and sought out experts to shed more light on this ongoing epidemic. When No Bully was asked to become an ongoing contributor for Patch we jumped at the opportunity!

Beth Dalbey, Patch’s Deputy National Editor, describes this contribution by saying “The partnership with No Bully complements our national reporting project around bullying and cyberbullying. We’ve told stories that hurt our hearts to write, but have also produced uplifting stories about kids across America who want to put a stop to bullying. Too many young lives are being harmed, or even lost, because of bullying. We are honored to join hands with No Bully to help expose what is nothing short of a national epidemic.”

No Bully’s roots come from personal experience. Having been bullied relentlessly as a teenager, Nicholas Carlisle (our Founder and President) wanted to ensure that other children did not have to endure the same abuse that he experienced in his formative years. In 2009, Nicholas established No Bully, a nonprofit organization that ignites compassion to eradicate bullying and cyberbullying worldwide. It began as a collaborative team of educators, psychologists and lawyers committed to building a kinder and more compassionate world through ending the crisis of bullying in schools and online.

No Bully is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! Over the last decade, we have become recognized as the nation’s preeminent anti-bullying organization. We are the most comprehensive professional development program proven to dramatically reduce bullying incidents and improve school climate and culture. Through our evidence-based prevention and intervention program, we have a 90% success rate solving incidents of bullying, serving hundreds of schools and over 250,000 students.

Cheryl McWilliams, Assistant Superintendent from the Pawtucket School Department in Rhode Island states “I’ve been doing this work for 20 years and I have never seen a program so well, so effectively and so quickly, stop bullying and make its target feel better and safer in school. I have a great appreciation for the No Bully system. It has had a positive impact on my school culture and we have definitely seen a decrease in bullying issues.”

On top of working with schools, we have reached millions of people through our global impact campaigns partnering with leading organizations such as ESPN, Hasbro, Major League Baseball and Burger King just to name a few. Campaigns such as our famous Burger King Ad that had over 4 billion impressions or The Together Table with Capri Sun, are examples of a couple of creative strategies we have implemented to bring increased awareness to the bullying epidemic.

Stats on Bullying

• Children who are bullied are around twice as likely to feel lonely, to be unable to sleep at night and to have contemplated suicide as those who are not bullied.
• 32% have been bullied by their peers at school at least once in the last month.
• 44.5% of students who are frequently bullied are expected to end their education at the secondary level.
• Physical appearance is the top reason for bullying, followed by race, nationality and skin color.

• Every day, 160,000 students skip school due to fear of bullying and exclusion, with nearly one quarter of middle schoolers experiencing that bullying in the school cafeteria.

If you are interested in learning more about our program or bullying in general please visit www.nobully.org. You may also call our Programs Assistant, Hannah Apa, at (415) 767-0070 if you would like to discuss how to become a No Bully school or district. With 10 million students per year being bullied in the United States, our program has never been more important. If you have particular questions or concerns that you would like to have No Bully address in future articles, please contact our Director of Communications directly at [email protected]. We look forward to our collaboration with Patch, where we will talk more about how to build happy hallways and peaceful playgrounds.