Love Our Children USA appear today the barrage of its civic attack STOMP Out Bullying. Teen Celebrities Demi Lovato and JoJo are accommodating in the accessible account campaign, which includes TV spots, videos, posters, brochures and wristbands. Others celebrities are slated to accompany the advancing campaign. The Geppetto Group created the affiche and video campaign.
Additionally, the First Annual Celebrity Auction to accession funds to advice STOMP Out Bullying will crop abode on Charity Folks from October 6th - 20th. Proceeds from the arrangement will go appear blowing and cyberbullying prevention, apprenticeship and associate mentoring in schools.
Among the celebrities and those in the ball and sports industries who accept abutting Love Our Children USA in its STOMP Out Bullying Auction are: Elton John, Bette Midler, Ellen Degeneres, Sugarland, John Cusack, Donny and Marie Osmond, Ashleigh Banfield, Dancing With The Stars, Live With Regis and Kelly, The View, truTV, “In The Heights”, the NJ Nets and more.
“Kids who are intimidated, threatened, or afflicted by bullies generally acquaintance low self-esteem and depression, admitting those accomplishing the blowing may go on to appoint in added austere alienated behaviors. Some kids are so traumatized by accepting bullied, that they contemplate suicide. Bullies generally accept been the victims of blowing or added abusage themselves” said Ross Ellis, Love Our Children USA Founder and Chief Executive Officer. This campaign’s key purpose is to brainwash those kids who are accepting afraid and those who are bullying, that there are choices for them to get help.
Bullying has accomplished catching proportions. While adolescence should be a time abounding with acquirements and joy, the absoluteness for abounding kids and adolescence is generally abundant different. They're the victims of blowing at academy or on adjacency playgrounds.
Bullying can be so aching and acutely has played a role in academy shootings above the country. While boys are added physical, girls use weapons, exclusion, slander, rumors and gossip.
And cyberbullying is on the rise. This amusing online animality is acclimated in the forms of e-mail, corpuscle phone; pager argument messages, burning messaging, abusive claimed Web sites, and abusive online claimed polling Web sites, deliberate, repeated, and adverse behavior, and is acclimated by an alone or accumulation -- advised to abuse others – abnormally amidst the youth. While a lot of kids use the Internet for affable interactions, added and added kids are application these advice accoutrement to antagonize, alarm and alarm others.
Bullying Statistics
• 1 out of 4 kids is Bullied.
• 1 out of 5 kids admits to accepting a bully, or accomplishing some "Bullying."
• 8% of acceptance absence 1 day of chic per ages for abhorrence of Bullies.
• 43% abhorrence aggravation in the bath at school.
• A poll of adolescence ages 12-17 accepted that they anticipate abandon added at their schools.
• 282,000 acceptance are physically attacked in accessory schools anniversary month.
• More adolescence abandon occurs on academy area as against to on the way to school.
• 80% of the time, an altercation with a annoyer will end up in a concrete fight.
• 1/3 of acceptance surveyed said they heard addition apprentice abuse to annihilate someone.
• 2 out of 3 say they apperceive how to accomplish a bomb, or apperceive area to get the advice to do it.
• Playground statistics - Every 7 account a adolescent is bullied.
• As abounding as 160,000 acceptance may break home on any accustomed day because they're abashed of their bullies due to the affliction of bullying.
Cyber Bullying Statistics
• 42% of kids accept been afraid while online. 1 in 4 accept had it appear added than once.
• 35% of kids accept been threatened online. Nearly 1 in 5 accept had it appear added than once.
• 21% of kids accept accustomed beggarly or aggressive e-mail or added messages.
• 58% of kids accept anyone has said beggarly or aching things to them online.
• 53% of kids accept accepting said something beggarly or aching to addition being online.
• 58% accept not told their parents or an developed about something beggarly or aching that happened to them online.
All of this has anybody worried. Not just the kids on its accepting end, but the parents, agents and others who may not accept how acute blowing can get. Love Our Children USA is alive aggressively to anticipate these issues and to advice the kids and adolescence afflicted by it.
Ellis said “STOMP Out Bullying brings acquaintance and educates kids, parents and schools about the issue. It offers achievement for every kid who adventures the adverse accoutrement of blowing and teaches parents to accumulate accessible advice with their accouchement and to attending for signs. It aswell educates academy administrators above the country, who accept swept this affair beneath the rug for too long.”
The STOMP Out Bullying attack will advice to abate blowing and cyberbullying, abatement academy absence and truancy, brainwash adjoin homophobia and racism and avert abandon in schools, playgrounds and communities above the country.
Ellis stated, “Bullying is a anatomy of adolescent bribery and bullies are actual acceptable to abound up as adults who bribery children. By educating our children, we can stop the blowing BEFORE it anytime starts. We are beholden to the ball industry and with their advice we can accumulate kids safe above the country.”
More advice about blowing and how to advice your accouchement and acceptance can be begin at www.loveourchildrenusa.org and www.STOMPOutBullying.org
About Love Our Children USA
Love Our Children USA is the civic nonprofit baton that honors, respects and protects children. Its mission is to breach the aeon of abandon adjoin children. Love Our Children USA has become ‘the go-to’ blockage alignment for all forms of abandon and carelessness adjoin accouchement in the U.S. Working to annihilate behaviors that accumulate accouchement from extensive their potential, it redefines parenting and creates kid success by announcement blockage strategies and absolute changes in parenting and ancestors attitudes and behaviors through accessible education. Empowering and acknowledging children, teens, parents and families through information, resources, advocacy, and online adolescence mentoring. Its bulletin is absolute ...one of prevention, empowerment and hope. Since 1999, Love Our Children USA has paved the way in the blockage of abandon and carelessness adjoin accouchement … befitting accouchement safe and deepening families.
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