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What’s the Be Strong APP?
The Be Strong app unites power with choice that saves & changes lives. You’ll find resources, support, and intervention for those who are affected by bullying, depression, or suicide, and best practices on combatting many adversities. We know this generation is facing issues and disadvantages that result in bullying and we want to help. If you have friends who are struggling with hunger, housing, escaping violence and much more, sit down with them and put your zip code in the local support section of the app – Help is at your fingertips, including one-touch resources, such as suicide lifeline, text help line, and trusted friend alert.
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WHY DO WE NEED
BE STRONG?
Bullying Prevention & anti-bullying efforts over the past decade have historically been instructed from a top-down approach and it’s not working.
Our youth deserve better. They deserve a comprehensive student-led approach.
Be Strong resolved to reverse these trends (statistics to the right) by equipping and empowering youth to ignite change in peer behavior. To date, Be Strong’s approach has proven to be effective.
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of 9th - 12th grade students have been BULLIED on SCHOOL PROPERTY
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of students FELT SAD & HOPELESS almost every day for 2 or more weeks
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of students have seriously CONSIDERED SUICIDE
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%
of students have ATTEMPTED SUICIDE one or more times in the past 12 months
Statistics based on the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Report published by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
You Matter
School campuses are in a state of flux. A mental health crisis on campus is exposing questions of meaning, purpose, and connection, resulting in fear and violence. And the world is only getting more complex. Amid these challenges, students are also the least hopeful they’ve been in history.
This moment of flux is also a moment of opportunity. What if students took the pain they experienced from bullying, isolation and hopelessness, and used it as motivation to create inclusive environments? What if instead of being the reason they don’t go to school, become violent, harm themselves, it’s the reason they find hope and purpose?
Through heightened education, community mobilization, advocacy and youth empowerment, Be Strong strives to save and change lives by shining a light on social environment safety and acceptance, enhance knowledge about the help/resources available and aggregate professional service providers. Join the Be Strong Movement.
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Learning Resources
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Who doesn’t like being complemented… really?
News
March 2020 Student of the Month: Georgia State Rep Jackson
From Harlem, meet Georgia Rep Jackson, Be Strong’s March 2020 Student of the Month!
Viral video raises awareness about bullying in South Florida
A viral video showing the impact of bullying reminds us why we need to be kind to others.
February 2020 Student of the Month: Florida State Rep Aniyah
From Delray Beach, meet Florida Rep – Aniyah, Be Strong’s February 2020 Student of the Month!
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