Anti-Bullying Program Goes Beyond Schools To People With Disabilities And Military Families
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"What Do You Think About The Amanda Todd Tragedy?" StreetSmartz Founder Urges Parents To Ask Their Kids
On October 13, Steven Baird, managing director of Street Smart Kidz, took to the online comments section of a Vancouver Sun article on Amanda Todd to write a message that seems obvious, but resonated powerfu
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Cody Simpson A Dork, Weird, Nerd?
Fans of Australian singer Cody Simpson would never call him a dork, weird, nerd, spoiled or odd, but he proudly wears a hoodie emblazoned with those adjectives.
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411 TV Aims To Empower 7000 Female Students
A youth initiative to empower girls is expanding its scope with an in-school live “television” presentation entitled 411 TV. The 411 Initiative For Change organization, sometimes simply called 411, will be touring the program in 20 Ontario schools from March 21 to April 1 and is expect to reach 7000 female students.
Since launching in 1999, 411 has made presentations in more than 400 schools across Canada, raising issues of girls rights, human rights and HIV/AIDS.
“This new program comes as a result of requests from students and teachers for 411 to focus on domestic issues affecting girls, such as body image, self-esteem, racism, careers, healthy relationships and bullying (cyber bullying),” the press release states.
411 TV is a mock live-to-air TV talk show, mixing video, theatre and music with live interviews to relay positive images of girls and to offer real-life testimonies from Canadian girls and women.
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Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy Supports The Gender and Sexuality Advocacy and Education Program
Scissor Sisters multi-instrumentalist Babydaddy has been supporting The Gender and Sexuality Advocacy and Education Program at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., long before the bullying of gay youth made headlines the past month following the suicide of Rutger’s student Tyler Clementi.
“They approached me early on because they had heard a radio interview I had done for MPR [Minnesota Public Radio] talking about having a somewhat awkward childhood being a gay kid,” says Babydaddy, whose birth name is Scott Hoffman.
“It’s an organization that helps young kids — boys who don’t necessarily identify as boyish boys and girls who don’t identify as girlish girls — and it’s an organization to protect them and help people understand what they must be going through, which I think is a wonderful cause.”
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