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=Welcome to the Brazosport Area Bully Prevention Task Force Wiki! =

__Our Vision__: The Brazosport area takes a community-wide stance against bullying behavior and through education our youth are empowered to take personal responsibility for eliminating bullying within our schools and community

__Our Goal__: To create a comprehensive, community-wide action plan that effectively meets district, community, and state goals, so as to eliminate bullying behavior within our community and promote physical, social, and emotional health for the youth of the Brazosport Area.

This site will allow membership of the task force the opportunity to share information and ideas among ourselves and collaborate as we develop objectives and create action plans with timelines in the following areas:
 * 1) Community / District Strengths and Needs Assessment
 * 2) Research on Relevant Facts about Bully Behavior
 * 3) Research of Current Best Programs and Practices
 * 4) Curriculum Development for each level (elementary, middle, intermediate, high school)
 * 5) Curriculum Development Targeting Cyber-bullying (Digital Citizenship)
 * 6) Laws / Legal Aspects, Policy Development, and Enforcement
 * 7) Student Leadership
 * 8) School-wide Commitment and Staff Training
 * 9) Community and Parent Education (i.e. media, publications, and programs)
 * 10) Follow-up Interventions for victims of bullying
 * 11) Follow-up Interventions for those who have bullied
 * 12) Progress Monitoring

<span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All members are asked to use the "edit" tab in the upper right corner of each page to add information that brings greater clarity or elaborates on what is already there. Members are also asked to edit information that is not best practice or is inaccurate. Individually we can each contribute ideas that will help our community and impact our world. As Margaret Mead said so well, " //<span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has //<span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">."