Olweus Bullying Prevention

The Olweus [pronounced Ol-VEY-us] Bullying Prevention Program is a comprehensive, school-wide program designed for use in elementary, middle, or junior high schools. Its goals are to reduce and prevent bullying problems among school children and to improve peer relations at school. The program has been found to reduce bullying among children, improve the social climate of classrooms, and reduce related antisocial behaviors, such as vandalism and truancy. The Olweus Program has been implemented in more than one dozen countries around the world.

Olweus is a program that focuses a lot of energy on helping bystandards learn strategies and skills to step in, and help change the culture of a school as it relates to bullying. Most of the time students are witnesses to bullying behavior, and they are silent bystandards because they don't know what to do. It may take time, but we hope to lower the incidences of bullying on our campus over time.