Maybe somebody loves me. Im always touched by that. Some day bullying will be something of the past. I also wanted to say we need to work and i see representatives here of cities and counties because those same children are on sports teams under the city rec department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals with the kind of issues rob and your family have dealt with in terms of using the internet safely and being aware of the harm you can do to yourself and to others by the way digital news can get around. Assemblyman. Thank you very much. Im ve
Resonated with me that tom said, if you simply tolerate diversity you are aspiring to mediocrity. Can you talk about the ambassadors, adults taking an active role to intervene when we witness bullying. All of us are humbled by the virus, how systemic its become. How do you get your hands around that . For me its top down and bottom up. We are Authority Figures and what we do for our children and thats care, but we need to empower them to become the leaders they are waiting to become. This notion of Youth Adult Partnership is esoteric in its term but on the ground how do you operationalize it, those things in the Public School who are working so hard to meet the required mandates. Schools are driven by mandates, academic achievement, achievement, enrollment. But the conditions in which the virus grows, if you follow the metaphor that bullying is a systemic virus, then the environment has to change so the virus cannot grow and the only way the environment changes is if youth and adults b
Become the leaders they are waiting to become. This notion of Youth Adult Partnership is esoteric in its term but on the ground how do you operationalize it, those things in the Public School who are working so hard to meet the required mandates. Schools are driven by mandates, academic achievement, achievement, enrollment. But the conditions in which the virus grows, if you follow the metaphor that bullying is a systemic virus, then the environment has to change so the virus cannot grow and the only way the environment changes is if youth and adults begin to speak with one voice about changing the social norms that allows it to happen. It makes sense to most of us, you have it khaifrpb the social norms. We must educate. But we must go beyond thinking more rigor will get us better achievement. We have to remember a school is a community and in a xhuept, people look out for each other. Theyve got each others back. How do we begin to promote that idea that we are in this thing together .
If everyone can give another round of applause for darlene johnson. Apologize for the technical difficulties and thank you for rolling it with and going ahead and starting. I appreciate it. I just want to make sure that i give her a proper introduction. Darlene currently serves as the associate director in the office of violence against women. In this capacity, she supports the director and managing the Community Engagement division and implementing Grant Programs that respond to violence against women. So thank you. Now were going to hear from elizabeth allen. Dr. Allen is professor of graduate studies and Higher Education at the university of maine and director of stop hazing consulting. Dr. Allen was Principal Investigator for the National Study of student hazing and is currently directing the hazing prevention consortium. So lets give her a round of applause. Thank you. Can everyone hear me okay . Great. Its great to be here. Thanks so much for choosing to come to this session toda
That are lgbq and because their families come from a culture different from america and because they have to pay homage to that culture yet they are in america, they are at a struggle. Its not surprising when they come home and they want to talk to their mom or they want to talk to their dad or talk to their siblings about something a happened at school or something that happened at a Community Organization they are involved in, they just cant because they feel that they cant. They are afraid to and even if they do, they either get disowned or get kicked out or get beat up, unfortunately sometimes. I feel that sometimes family can feed into biases because of those cultural differences and we as Community Service providers need to realize that and acknowledge that. Families arent always positive for our youth. Becky, in your experience what does it take to unseat that kind of bias . I think there are a few things. I wanted to back up a little tiny bit. When luslyn talked this morning sh