NIAAA Bullying/Hazing
Presentation
Parents
• Reinforce child’s self-worth and importance
• Don’t send mixed messages
• Instill that no on has the right to embarrass,
inflict pain or humiliate them
• Work with the school and administration
• Network and talk with other parents in the
program
Coach and Adult Advisor
• Understand the school district’s anti-hazing
policy.
• Be available for the members of your
team/group to listen and react to their
concerns.
• Create an environment of trust, respect,
and sincere concern.
Coach and Adult Advisor
• Know leadership responsibilities.
• Explain your position on hazing and the
consequences.
• Set and communicate team rules.
• Define any special privileges that
upperclassmen receive on the team or group.
– Explain that such privileges come with
responsibility for appropriate behavior!!!
Coach and Adult Advisor
• Discourage cliques.
• Openly discuss the group dynamic.
• Send a clear message that you will not
tolerate any hazing on the team/group.
• Establish and maintain open communications
between the students, parents, school
administration, and community.
Coach and Adult Advisor
• Generate strategies to build group unity and
team pride with positive methods and
practices.
• Eliminate any old traditions with questionable
practices.
• Lead the team/group in developing new
traditions that involve hard work for positive
and desirable results. Some examples:
Strategies
• Adopt a middle school and put on a clinic or
exhibition for the younger students.
• Assign an older team/group member to be a
“buddy” with a younger or newer member.
• Create a “Run-A-Thon”, “Read-A-Thon” or
“Push-Up-A-Thon” and have sponsors donate
money for every mile ran, book read, or pushup made.
Strategies
• Participate in a Ropes Course or Team trip
• Preseason Team Activities
• Adopt a local charity and dedicate a game or
contest to that group.
• Participate in team dinners and/or sleepovers.
• Dress up for team functions or for away
contests.
Strategies
• Participate in a cross-age mentoring program
with the local middle school or elementary
school.
• Participate in a community service project
that they have to work together in order to
get the tasked accomplished.
Thank You !
Contact information:
For additional information :
B. Elliot Hopkins, MLD, CAA
NFHS Director of Educational
Service
(o) 317-822-5757
E-mail: ehopkins@nfhs.org
Social Media Outreach
• Inside the Darkness- High
School Hazing blog:
• Insidethedarknesshshazing.
wordpress.com
• E-mail: ilead@aol.com
• Facebook: ileadnow
• Twitter: @ileadnowElliot
DIRECT BULLYING
Physical Aggression
Pushing
Shoving
Spitting
Kicking
Hitting
Defacing Property
Stealing
DIRECT BULLYING
Physical Aggression
Physical Acts that are demeaning and humiliating but
not bodily harmful
Locking in a closed or confined space
Physical Violence against family or friends
Threatening with a weapon
Inflicting bodily harm
DIRECT BULLYING
Verbal Aggression
Mocking
Name-calling
Dirty Looks
Taunting
Teasing about clothes or possessions
Teasing about appearance
Verbal threats of aggression against property or
possessions or violence of inflicting physical harm
DIRECT BULLYING
Intimidation
Threatening to reveal personal information
Graffiti
Publicly challenging to do something (Dare)
Defacing property or clothing
Playing a dirty trick
Taking possessions (e.g. lunch, clothing)
INDIRECT BULLYING
Social Alienation
Gossiping
Embarrassing
Setting up to look foolish
Spreading rumors
Ethnic slurs
Setting up to take the blame
Publicly humiliating
INDIRECT BULLYING
Social Alienation
Excluding from the group
Social rejection
Maliciously excluding
Manipulating
Manipulating social order to achieve rejection
Threatening with total isolation by peer group
Harassment, Bullying, Hazing
Bullying is more aggressive in nature
and can include physical and verbal
acts of aggression including
intimidation and social alienation.
Harassment, Bullying, Hazing
Harassment is more of an annoyance
and generally involves unwanted
advances or contact.
Harassment, Bullying, Hazing
Hazing refers to any act expected of
someone being part of a group that
humiliates, degrades, or risks
emotional and/or physical harm
regardless of the person’s
willingness to participate.
Your Duties
According to the Office of Civil Rights
a school is responsible for
addressing harassment incidents
about which it knows or reasonably
should have known.
FAPE- Free and Appropriate Education