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YES PROGRAM – OCTOBER 2022

October is Bully Prevention Month

Dear Friends and Partners:

I am hoping you will continue to partner with the Youth Empowerment Support (YES) Program and other organizations to help reduce Acts of Bullying™. YES promotes awareness and offers free workshops to children, adults, and educators. Our goal is to enhance individual’s resiliency and provide resources to positively and effectively prevent “Acts of Bullying”™ in all settings. Our goal is to create safer environments for our children, youth, and adults.

Becoming a partner with YES promotes healthy social-emotional development skill, create safer environments, and builds up the resiliency of our children, youth, and teens. Our efforts also brings awareness to bullying in all settings and provide everyone with the knowledge and skill to recognize Acts of Bullying™ and positively respond and decrease the effects of bullying behavior.

To those of you who have supported our efforts by promoting a “positive message” of awareness and partnership to decrease the impact of Acts of Bullying™ – I thank you! We have continued to make positive changes in many settings to improve the safety, support, and resources to decrease acts of  bullying in our schools, communities, and the workplace.

Thanks again and take care.

Dr. Geisha Glass-Abdullah, Ph.D
M.Ed., M Ed.- Research, LSS-BB
Youth Empowerment Support (YES) Program

The Spectrum of Acts of Bullying

There are various types of aggressive behaviors that make up Acts of Bullying. Through trial and error, young aggressors evolve to become adult aggressors with a level of skill to repeatedly target and abuse their victims while navigating the constraint of social rules and morality that would elevate their actions to be addressed by their peers and others. As the young aggressor progresses through the Spectrum of Acts of Bullying, the repeated behaviors become more controlled, strategic, and resourceful as they evolve into adulthood. The final stage in the Spectrum of Acts of Bullying allows the aggressor to target and repeatedly abuse their victims in various settings while successfully navigating the constraints of internal and external policies and laws (Glass-Abdullah, 2022).

Definition of Acts of Bullying

  • Acts of Bullying are repeated negative behaviors that target a person or a group of people with the intent to cause harm that is physical, verbal, financial, social, psychological, or emotional.
  • Acts of Bullying causes the person or group to suffer physical, mental, emotional, or financial illnesses or injuries (including loss of life) (Glass-Abdullah, 2022).

Citing this source: Glass-Abdullah, G. (2022). A Conversation About Bullying: The Spectrum of Acts of Bullying. October 4, 2022.

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Congrats Kylah and the Moanalua Middle School Energy Team!

Congrats Kylah and the Moanalua Middle School Energy Team!

Congrats Kylah and the Moanalua Middle School Energy Team!
Kylah is President of the Moanalua Middle School Energy Team. The Team entered the 2014 NEED Project in which they raised awareness about energy use and different types of energy. The team won Hawaii Junior School Of The Year and they are planning to attend a 4 day event in Washington D.C.