Stop Bullying Handbook: A Guide For Students And Their Friends (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780975900413)

Betty Hoeffner nearly lost a teen to suicide and knows how tough it can be for kids to hold on to their self-esteem especially when faced with bullying and self-bullying. She founded Prevent Bullying Now and Hey U.G.L.Y. to help not only the bullied but also the bullies because both are suffering from low self-esteem. She is the author of "Hue-Man Kind - A Book to End Racism" and "Stop Bullying Handbook-A Guide for Students & Their Friends" which is a step-by-step resource to help youth understand and protect themselves and others from bullying. She developed and wrote the highly effective Stop Bullying Task Force Program which enables schools to set up a student-run stop bullying committee to deal with bullying situations. She created Bullying Bystanders Unite, Project Apologize, Laughtercising(tm), Cyberbullied Unite and the Love Yourself Enough and the I AM ENOUGH Campaigns. She hosts a twice weekly radio show on WRHC-FM called CHOOSE TO CHANGE. Together with teen DJ's, the show features songs and singer/songwriters whose lyrics inspire positive self-esteem, diversity, a healthy planet, peace and/or never giving up. After the song is played the teen guest DJs and Hoeffner discuss the lyrics and how the messages can help teens in the listening audience. This former public relations expert, whose advice is featured in the book 303 Marketing Tips, developed a teen grooming program for Supercuts; a teen safe driving program for Precision Tune; and a social studies project for Willy Wonka Brands. While serving as partner at FTF, she helped develop a program teaching students the importance of exercise to counter the obesity epidemic. She is executive producer of the award-winning film, "Things You Should Know Before Entering the Hospital."