Check out the infographic that the team from Help for Depression recently shared with us. While there are many positive aspects of social networks when used safely, the statistics and findings below show how people use Facebook to share thoughts, feelings and personal interests.   How do your kids choose….read more

Over 160,000 kids miss school every day because they are afraid of being attacked or harassed by other students. That's why it is always important to learn about new anti-bullying initiatives, and October in particular marks National Bullying Prevention Month. Tragic cases of bullying and cyberbullying that end up in teen suicides are frequently in the news these….read more

Making national headlines this week is the tragic suicide of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, a victim of bullying and cyberbullying because of struggles with his sexuality. The Williamsville, New York teen was found by his parents early Monday morning after enduring unrelenting torment and bullying by his peers.   Jamey….read more

In January of 2010, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince committed suicide after schoolmates from her South Hadley, Massachusetts high school bullied her both at school and online. Prince had recently moved with her family from Ireland, and almost immediately became a target of bullying. There was a specific group of five teens who carried out a "three month campaign" of torment that….read more

Liz Goodwin recently posted this blog entry on how mental illness may be dangerously absent from the bullying debate that is taking place in this country after the tragic suicide at Rutgers last month.  Goodwin cites Ann Haas, the research director at the American Foundation for Suicide….read more

By now you will have heard of the tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi, a first-year student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on September 22nd after his roommate secretly filmed him having an intimate encounter with another man and then Tweeting about it.  The fact that everybody involved in this tragic incident….read more