Anti-Bullying Awareness

The Yuma County Anti‐Bullying Task Force was formed in 2008 in an effort to raise awareness regarding such a sensitive and difficult issue in rural Yuma County, Arizona.

What is Bullying?

Bullying is when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person.

Types of Bullying:

• Physical: includes any physical contact that would hurt or injure a person like hitting, kicking, punching, etc.
• Verbal: is name-calling, making offensive remarks, or joking about a person's religion, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or the way they look.
• Indirect: includes spreading rumors or stories about someone, telling others about something that was told to you in private, and excluding others from groups.
• Social Exclusion: is when a bully excludes someone from a group on purpose.
• Intimidation: is when a bully threatens someone else and frightens that person enough to make him or her do what the bully wants.
• Cyber bullying: is done by sending messages, pictures, or information using electronic media, computers (email & instant messages), or cell phones (text messaging & voicemail.

Consequences for the Victim:

• Failure and learning difficulties
• High levels of anxiety
• May develop school phobia
• Development of unsafe and unhealthy personality
• Low self-esteem
• Difficulty integrating in social and academic settings
• Clinical symptoms: anxiety, hysteria and depression
• Violent behavior

Resources:

• Counseling
• Educational sessions
• Prevention tips
• Reporting website
• Low self-esteem

Stakeholders:

• Regional Center for Border Health, Inc.
• Yuma Union High School District
• City of Yuma Police Department
• City of San Luis Police Department
• City of Somerton Police Department
• Yuma County Sheriff’s Office
• Yuma County Board of Supervisors
• Cocopah Indian Tribe
• Yuma County Attorney’s Office
• Yuma County Superintendents Office

For more information call 928‐315-7910.