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Community Psychology

Wilfrid Laurier University

2016

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Evaluating A Skills-Based Approach To Bullying Prevention, Rebecca Pister Jan 2016

Evaluating A Skills-Based Approach To Bullying Prevention, Rebecca Pister

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In the following paper, I present an evaluation of the bullying prevention program designed and delivered by the John Howard Society of Waterloo-Wellington (JHS WW). A mixed-methods approach involving both quantitative and qualitative data collection was used to assess the program impacts on children receiving the primary stream of the program (Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 3), and the junior stream of the program (Grades 4 through 6). A case study was also conducted to assess the impacts of the program one year after program delivery and after two consecutive years of programming. Finally, all school staff members were invited to respond …