New Bullying Awareness Website Launched Monday
Greg Mulock
THE NORTHERN LIGHT STAFF
Two young students from different Canadian provinces officially launched a new website on Monday to draw attention to athe issues of peer bullying. The website, www.bullyingkidsspeakup.ca, provides information about bullying. It also offers space for young people to share their own personal experiences with bullying and victimization. The site’s creators are Brandon Walker, a Grade 11 student in Dartmouth, N.S.; and Robbie Frenette, a Grade 11 student at Bathurst High School who has co-organized a couple of anti-bullying seminars in Bathurst this past year. Both young men have been victims of bullies, and met via the Internet after Brandon saw media coverage about Robbie. “We have been there and know the pain associated with bullying,” said Robbie. “We also know that bullying can be a solitary issue with many victims unable, for fear of reprisal, to speak out, and that is why we need a place for victims and targets of bullying to share information and to seek out solutions,” he added. The website, which is still in development and a work in progress, will include a list of resources for young people. Robbie said the idea behind the site is to try and establish a positive venue for both young people and parents and professionals to hear personal accounts of the horror stories associated with bullying. And, perhaps even more importantly, he said, to learn methods of dealing with these situations. The two students are being assisted by an organization in Ottawa called Child & Youth Friendly Ottawa
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