Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention News & Updates
November 2021 | Volume 10: Issue 4
Video Resource Spotlight
Free2Luv Youth Empowerment Panel

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Out and About in the (Virtual) Community

These are just some of the events and presentations from over the past few months:
August

Teachers' Compassion Fatigue, Social Support, and Teaching Self-efficacy During COVID-19 - poster presentation at American Psychological Association Convention (virtual)

PREPaRE Workshops 1 & 2 - Questar III BOCES

September

Helping Students at-Risk for Suicide - virtual presentation

Mitigating the Effects of Childhood Trauma: Guidance for School-based Teams - University of Oklahoma

October

Bullying and Suicide: Keys to Prevention and Resiliency - student focused teacher led conference

The Lockdown Drill Debate: A Look at Current Research - Safe and Sound Schools Virtual Summit
NYSED DASA Training

Registration dates are now available through February 2022. The course is offered fully online in two parts. As of January 1, 2022, Part One will be asynchronous, while Part Two will be synchronous with "live" interactive instruction. Feedback from recent participants:

I learned a lot and I did not expect to achieve so much reflection time throughout this course. It really allowed me to reflect on my own teaching practices. I thought this was a very informative course and I learned a lot from it.

I liked the strategies to incorporate when speaking with a victim. I also liked the scenarios of how to talk to parents. In addition to that I liked how the alternative approaches to handle a bullying situation were explained and how they are more effective than punitive strategies.
2021 Alberti Center Virtual Conference Recap
The Alberti Center's 2021 Virtual Conference took place on Monday, October 4, via Zoom Webinar. Over 150 attendees joined to learn about Bystander Intervention: Preventing Violence and Interrupting Social Injustices. Thank you to our speakers and all who were able to attend and we hope that next year we will be able to gather in person! Presentation slides from the breakout session speakers, as well as contact information, are available on our website here.

We have also included a link to the Free2Luv Youth Empowerment Panel, a special event we added to our conference this year, in the Video Resource Spotlight section (left). All of the Free2Luv youth advocates who presented the panel did an incredible job speaking about their experiences, sharing advice, and inspiring anyone watching! Learn more about the Free2Luv organization and please feel free to share the YouTube recording widely with any youth or student groups. We have already begun planning our next annual conference and look forward to sharing details with you in Spring of 2022!
screenshot from Zoom Webinar
2021-2022
Colloquium Series
The first presentation in the Alberti Center's 2021-2022 Colloquium Series took place on Tuesday, September 14. Dr. Gijs Huitsing, from the University of Groningen, presented his research on Targeting Persistent Cases of Bullying with Network Diagnostics. A recording of Dr. Huitsing's presentation as well as the slides are available on the Alberti Center's website.

The second addition to the Colloquium Series this year was the 17th annual (Reboot) Safe Schools Initiative Seminar, hosted by the Erie County Law Enforcement Foundation (ECLEF). The topic of the seminar, which was held via Zoom Webinar on November 9, was Addressing the Misuse, Overuse and Abuse of Social Media and Technology in Schools and Online Spaces. Presenters included Dr. Sameer Hinduja from the Cyberbullying Research Center, Dr. Melissa Reeves, NCSP, LCMHC, and Jennifer Hanley and Alexandra Hayman from Meta's Trust & Safety Team. Recordings of Dr. Hinduja and Dr. Reeves' presentations, as well as contact information, slides, and website links are available on the ECLEF website. The Alberti Center co-sponsored this event along with Utica National, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The next event in the 21-22 Series, which is scheduled for Tuesday, February 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. ET, is a panel discussion on how schools can best address and respond to bullying of children with disabilities. The discussion will include issues that students and families have dealt with and how families and schools can work together to resolve conflicts and prevent further incidents of bullying. Panel members will include Michael Gilberg, Esq., Tara Moffett, Esq., and Steve Oill, Family Peer Advocate. Registration will be opening soon on the Alberti Center's Colloquium page.
2021 Early Career Award Recipient

Congratulations to Dr. Ann Farrell, recipient of the 2021 Alberti Center Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Bullying Abuse Prevention Award! Dr. Farrell is an Assistant Professor in Child and Youth Studies at Brock University. Her research centers on a multidisciplinary understanding of bullying as a complex social problem, including the processes among individual, social, environmental, and cultural factors associated with youth bullying. Learn more about Dr. Farrell on the Alberti Center website "Research" page.
New Student Team Members

There are some new students on the Alberti Center team that we would like to introduce! Joining the team this past year are: Swapna Balkundi (Graduate Assistant & Schomburg Fellow), Kay Huang (Graduate Assistant), Julianna Casella (Presidential Fellow), Jay'ana King (Graduate Assistant & Schomburg Fellow), Lucia Sun and Dylan Harrison (Research Assistants). You can learn more about our new team members on the Alberti Center website "About Us" page!
Q&A: Dr. Stephanie Fredrick Featured in Learn Magazine
Dr. Stephanie Fredrick, associate director for the Alberti Center, was recently interviewed for an article in the UB Graduate School of Education's Learn Magazine. Dr. Fredrick provided her expertise on the topic of cyberbullying and how to prevent bullying in online environments.
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