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Congratulations to the 2025 Students with Solutions “Speak Up About Speaking Up” Video Winner!
Bessemer City Middle School 6th graders (Alabama), under the guidance of Dr. Yuvraj Verma, won the video category. To address this year’s theme of self-advocacy, they created an inspiring video featuring over 90 students titled “The Power of Speaking Up.” Each student spoke with strong conviction about the benefits of self-advocacy and how it not only helps with bullying, but with self-confidence as well. “It’s about courage, kindness, and standing together,” they said.
11th Annual Unity Awards!
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 closed March 31, 2025
National Bullying Prevention Month (NBPM) held during October | Save-the-Date for Unity Day: October 25, 2025
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.
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]
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.
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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Because I have been bullied most of my life. I have struggled with self-harm and attempts with my life over bullying. Bullying isn't a joke and has long-lasting effects on people, whether people realize it or not.
Caspian — 12
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I care because i think everyone and everything matters
Jake — 15
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bullying can make people harm themselves and it can make people miserable and hate their lives and themselves.
Kenzy — 12
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I care because everyone should feel welcomed in this world, and know that people in this world do love and care about them.
Eden — 12
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Small community in Western Wisconsin suffered a horrible tragedy that no child nor parent should EVER have to go through. Before school started social media and cell phones were used to bully a young beautiful soul, as it got outta hand and she took her own life. 15 years old. THERE NEEDS TO BE CONSEQUENCES!
Tara — 29
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I haven't been bullied, but I do know what it feels like when someone does something mean to you. No one should ever have to feel that, and just being kind to someone can go a long way.
Fiona —
Stories
I can’t take it anymore!
September 17, 2025
Hello, I’m here just to tell you about how bad I feel, I think I’m bullied but I’m not sure if it’s really this, I’m from Ukraine and going to simple public school (lyceum), I’m 13 and going to 8 grade, I’m very shy kid and have only one friend at school, and here two girls who trying to make me angry and make fun of this, they even making fun from my ignoring them, it’s making me feel angry and sad, it’s started at 7 grade one of this girl left school but situation still bad, i don’t think that i can tell about that to school principal because i think they will make fun of me more, but when I’m telling about that to my mom she telling me tell about it to school principal by myself, and i just feel helpless in this situation, i already even started thinking about self h#rm and only what stops me it’s my fear of pain but any day I can overcome this fear and do it, it’s really scares me but I feeling too bad to worry about it, I know it’s won’t help but I can’t do anything else maybe it’s will make my mom notice that I can’t deal with it by myself…on this it’s all