About
About Be Strong
Be Strong is a non-profit empowering youth to prevent bullying, isolation and suicide by igniting change in peer behavior through a comprehensive student – led approach to: encourage ALL students to reveal challenges they are facing, train and equip students to become more resilient, arm them with the Be Strong App to access real time and local resources that can help, and unite them to change their families, schools, communities, states, and country.
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Our Story
In the fall of 2014, Be Strong was founded by the Moore family, who was directly affected by the issue of bullying. The family searched for meaningful solutions for their child but found none. In frustration, they enrolled their child in a treatment facility where life-saving resiliency skills were taught. Roy Moore, Founder of Be Strong, enlisted a group of local leaders to volunteer and tackle this top five safety, health and social issue. They committed to reaching all students with these life-saving skills.
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 communities deserve better.
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.