NoBLE – Support for Bullied Children

The No Bullying Live Empowered (NoBLE) Program is a Beaumont Children's Hospital program providing integrated educational and counseling services to provide support for bullied children and families affected by bullying. We focus on meeting the needs of all youth exposed to bullying, recognizing that victims, witnesses, and bullies are all at risk for lifelong problems. One of our active areas of program development explores innovative ways to partner families, teachers, and healthcare providers to help address bullying and its impact.

Bullying knows no boundaries - it can affect anyone independent of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion and socioeconomic status. Media has only heightened our awareness of how common bullying is and the tragedies that can occur secondarily. What are not often apparent are the lifelong effects exposure to bullying can have on an individual's well- being.

Statistics of Bullied Children

• Approximately 10% of children in the United States are bullied in the most traditional sense of the word, with somewhere between 80% and 90% of pre-adolescents facing ongoing psychological and physical harassment at some point in their school life that could be characterized as bullying under the broader definition.
• 23% of elementary school students in grades 4 - 6 described being bullied "several times or more" over a given year while 8% of students in grades 6 - 10 revealed that they were bullied at least one time per week.
• The incidence continues to escalate through middle school and into high school resulting in 1 out of 3 teens who report being frequently bullied.
• An estimated 160,000 children stay out of school on any given day because they are afraid of being bullied.

Check out our video gallery for the latest NoBLE videos including our new PSA, focusing on doctors asking and looking for signs of bullying, and clips from the press conference launching NoBLE.

NoBLE is supported in-part by your donations. Your support will help provide counseling and educational support for bullied children and families. Under "Donation Programs" write in NoBLE.