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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
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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I care because its mean and it can hurt people mentally and physically. People that get bullied might cry and feel bad about themselves. People should never feel that way about themselves. That's why I care about bullying.
Perri — 21
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Bullying degrades individuals and forces them to deal with something new physically or mentally besides what they already possibly have going on in their life. It causes individuals to feel useless, depressed, alone, etc. The world should be filled with love, support, and kindness. You could easily make a difference in someone else's life by giving support and not bullying. I care because I want you to set an example and be the person people want to stand with against bullying. Non-bullying makes a difference and saves lives, think about it.
Natalie — 17
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Bullying is a very harsh and mean thing to do. This only occurs because people try to make others feel bad about themselves to make themselves feel better.
Kandyn — 14
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buLLYing is bAd beCAUse iT afFEcts peOPles liVEs
quinn — 13
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people shouldn't get bullied.
caydance — 12
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i care because It truly hurts from the inside. And there's kids out there like i was, feeling all alone, hurt, and scared what the next day would put in my face
noah — 13
Stories
Drown out the noise
April 17, 2025
In January this year, I decided to publish my first song. It didn’t take long for it to be noticed by the kids at school, and soon they started to make fun of me and my music. This really hurt because people created an Instagram page to make fun of me on, and also made comments about it all the time at school. It had eventually made me start having frequent emotional breakdowns and only worsened my depression that I already had. It eventually got the the point where the smallest things upset me, and eventually I had threatened to harm myself. After my parents talked to me, I decided to publish another song called No More Noise which talks about tuning out people who make fun of you. So please remember that if you need to talk to somebody, don’t wait. Go and find somebody ASAP. And also, if people make fun of you, just remember, haters are admirers in denial. So don’t let them get to you, drown out the noise.