Woodward Parkway Student Wins Bully Prevention Poster Contest

fourth grader Bernard Raifer, is among 15 students who won an award in the annual Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS) Bully Prevention Poster and Poetry Contest.  

More than 2000 students from 60 schools across Long Island submitted entries and the winning 12 posters and 3 poems will be published in the 2011-2012 CAPS Bully Prevention Center School Year Calendar, to be distributed this fall.  

“The annual contest is open to third and fourth graders who participated in our Steer Clear of Bullies program,” said Alane Fagin, CAPS executive director.  “The contest provides them with a creative opportunity to reinforce their understanding of the bully prevention strategies they’ve learned in class, that is helping them build social skills, empathy and assertiveness, and express their personal thoughts on the subject.”

Steer Clear of Bullies is the elementary school component of CAPS bully prevention and peer harassment K-12 education, and is presented free to schools on Long Island.  

The calendar will be distributed in September to all Long Island elementary and middle schools and libraries. It is also available by request through CAPS.  The winning posters and poems are featured at facebook.com/capsli and www.capsli.org.

This annual project is funded by Howard and Roz Kroplick who each year donate its design and printing. Roz is a CAPS Board Member and chairs the Bully Prevention Center Calendar Contest Committee.

CAPS was founded in 1982 and is a non-profit resource on the prevention of bullying, child abuse and neglect on Long Island. Its Bully Prevention Center runs the agency’s signature in-school programs for children, prevention workshops for parents, staff development and training for school professionals and the email and phone services Helpline and BullyHelpline.