Kathleen Allen, Ph.D.

Kathleen Allen (Katy) is the Training and Evaluation Specialist at the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. A life-long educator, Katy has taught online courses at the Graduate School of Education at UB, reading and writing to transitional students at Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY, and safety education programs at Rochester’s National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.  She has worked with school districts to assess their school climate and is currently working on an evaluation of a school-based child safety curriculum. Her research interests include bullying in schools and adolescent social drama. 

Contact Dr. Allen directly at [email protected] if you would like to consult with her.

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“Very helpful and incredibly insightful. Brought ideas and suggestions to the topic I had not thought about.” -Gina F., Social Worker, New York

Bullying has become a high priority problem for many schools. Across the country, most states have passed laws that prohibit bullying and harassment because of the hostile and discriminatory environment that they create. Students who are targeted by bullying suffer educational discrimination as well as a host of internalizing and externalizing problems. Likewise, the effects on bullies and bystanders are not to be dismissed. This webinar will take participants through basic and mid-level information on bullying that will provoke critical thinking about how we have traditionally sought to prevent and respond to this problem. It will consider how context shapes behaviors and how we as adults in the school environment can influence context. Finally, this webinar will look at ways to respond to bullying that avoid the traditional “investigate, interrogate, blame, and punish” approach to solving the problem of bullying.

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