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Submit your nomination for the Unity Awards today!
PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center Unity Awards, first held in 2015, recognize individuals and groups who are helping to prevent bullying and create a kinder, more accepting, and inclusive world. Examples of bullying prevention efforts may include empowering others to take positive action, advocating for those who need support, or sharing acts of kindness that cause a ripple effect in a community. Nominate an individual or group who is making a difference!
Nominations due March 31, 2025
Join the Students with Solutions Challenge!
K-12 students are invited to join PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center Students with Solutions Challenge. The SWS Challenge is a creative way for adults to engage youth in bullying prevention conversations while they learn how to speak up for themselves and their peers. To participate, students can share creative videos, artwork, and posters to be featured on NBPC websites with a chance to win some awesome prizes!
Submissions due March 31, 2025
Take action to address acne-based bullying
PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center is pleased to partner with Liquid Oxygen Skincare’s campaign to increase awareness of and address acne-based bullying. We are looking for youth (ages 14-21) like Larkin, pictured here and featured in this video to share their story about acne and bullying to be a part of the solution to help others! Want to learn more? Email [email protected]
National Bullying Prevention Month (NBPM) held during October | Unity Day is the third Wednesday of October
A month long event to prevent childhood bullying and promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. On Unity Day, plan to wear and share the color orange — as a tangible representation of the supportive, universal message that our society wants to prevent bullying, and is united for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion.
Bullying Prevention 101
This quick guide for middle and high school students provides helpful information on what bullying is, who is involved, the roles played, and bullying prevention rights, along with ideas for advocacy and self-advocacy.
Your Views Matter
What you think is important! If you have ever been bullied or have seen bullying, share your anonymous responses.
Teens Against Bullying bookmarks, new design now available!
The updated design of the Teens Against Bullying bookmark encourages middle and high school students with the message, “Creating a World Without Bullying.” The reverse side helps teens think of the actions they can take to change their world.
Student Action Plan Against Bullying
Ready to take action to address bullying? Maybe not sure how to start? As a student, bullying is something that impacts you, your peers, and your school – whether you’re the target of bullying, a witness, or the person who bullies. Bullying can end, but that won’t happen unless students, parents, and educators work together and take action.
Tell Us Why You Care
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When I was little I used to get bullied a lot. So I wanna make sure no one goes through what I had to go through. And It was hard to get bullied every day. And I still get bullied every now and then.
Emily — 13
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I kare stop bullying because bullying is bad.
Victor — 12
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I care because people get mad and sad and people hurt themselves
Tahraj — 10
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I care because bullying is just people that want others feel their pain. Bullying is just a never ending cycle. Someone is bullying someone else which can cause the person that is being bullied want to let others feel their pain too.
Hanan —
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Bullying is not the right option and just cause your insecure about something does not mean you have to put someone else down.
Bob — 12
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Everyone was made equally. For example, just because people have disabilities or other characteristics that people don't have, they don't have to be treated differently. I also care that people should take a stand and not just sit back and watch this chaos.
Izaiah — 11
Stories
February 14, 2025
i had a friend that i had been close with for seven years, then during covid she becomes close with the guy, i make it clear that we will never be friends, but friends of friends. anyways we grow close and start hanging out, this was all fine except every so often he would just become soooo rude to me. then 2 years ago he started to split me and my friend up. then a year and half ago when school started again after the summer i go back to school and my friend doesnt say a word to me, both of them laugh at me, ignore me. the guy since has been saying rude things whenever i go into the room, and constantly shoving me, pushing me, and breaking my stuff. i ve told my friends and they do nothing because hes their friend too, and my parents just get mad that i havent sorted things out with my friend. the night before my birthday she cornered me and basically talked for 2 hours saying that it was all my fault. then today i was walking to talk to another of my friends and he comes past me and shoves me into the wall, i get upset tell my friend and then as we walk down the lockers he says that hes going to this party tonight that i was meant to go. so then i tell my friend that if he goes, i wont. i am just soooo sick of him ruining the last 2 years of high school, and none of my friends do anything, and my parents just say take it up with the teachers but i know that it would only make it worse