Community:

What Can Your Neighborhood Do?

Block Parent Support

The block parent program is designed to provide a needed safe haven to children of all ages who feel threatened while walking to and from school.  Children who are lost, hurt, ill, frightened by strangers or bullied are welcome at block parent  homes. Teach your children about the program and involve the school in arranging a visit from the program administrators to explain how it works.  Your children will learn that block parents are safe strangers who can temporarily protect them when feeling threatened or scared.

Schools

Communication between the parent and school is extremely important because your children spend so much time in the classroom or on the playground, where most bullying takes place. Improving relations between parents and all members of the school is important for effective intervention and prevention of bullying. 

As Parents get involved with your schools.

•  Get everyone in your school involved in facing and dealing with the issue of bullying.
• Teachers, students, playground supervisors and other adult members of the school should play active roles.  Also students who may have been bullies in the past and changed may help.
•  Inquire about the history of reported bullying in your school.
• Design a bullying questionnaire and ask students to anonymously participate.  The results of the survey can be recorded in a report on bullying.
•  Inquire about the school’s library resources on the topic of bullying and prevention.
• Suggest that the school put together an assembly about bullying - class participation could include posters, pictures, poems, and stories.
• Are there enough supervisors on duty to monitor the children properly?
• Inquire about a peer support group where older students help younger children cope with bullying.