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Educational Information & Disclaimer
Learn, prepare, and become better informed—while recognizing when your situation may require individualized help.
Learn, prepare, and become better informed—while recognizing when your situation may require individualized help.
BBGPResources.com provides educational information and resources designed to help people better understand bullying-related issues, prevention, communication, reporting and help-seeking, and practical ways to become better prepared.
The information here can help you learn about important considerations, prepare useful questions, understand general options and processes, and participate more effectively when something matters to you.
It cannot determine exactly what you should do in every individual situation.
That distinction helps keep this educational environment useful, responsible, and clear.
What BBGPResources.com Can Help You Do
Educational information can be valuable before, during, and after difficult situations.
BBGPResources.com may help you:
- better understand an issue or concern;
- recognize factors that may deserve attention;
- learn about bullying prevention and preparedness;
- prepare questions for a school, workplace, organization, professional, or other responsible person;
- think more clearly about communication and help-seeking;
- understand general concepts related to reporting;
- identify information you may want to preserve or discuss; and
- become better prepared to participate in matters affecting you, your family, students, colleagues, or community.
The purpose is not to make decisions for you.
The purpose is to help you become better informed and better prepared to participate.
General Education Is Different From Individualized Professional Advice
Information provided through BBGPResources.com is general educational information.
Individual circumstances can involve facts, rules, policies, laws, health considerations, professional standards, or immediate safety concerns that cannot be fully evaluated through general website education.
BBGPResources.com therefore does not provide individualized:
legal advice;
medical advice;
mental-health diagnosis or treatment;
employment advice;
school-policy determinations;
investigations;
professional representation;
or emergency response.
When your circumstances require individualized judgment, consider taking the relevant information and questions to an appropriately qualified professional, responsible organization, or authority.
Seeking appropriate professional assistance does not make educational preparation less valuable. In many situations, becoming better informed beforehand can help you ask clearer questions and participate more effectively.
Understanding a Concern Is Not the Same as Classifying It
Words such as bullying, harassment, discrimination, abuse, retaliation, criminal conduct, and policy violation can have specific meanings under laws, school policies, workplace rules, organizational procedures, or other governing standards.
BBGPResources.com may provide education about these subjects and help visitors understand questions or considerations that may be relevant.
But general educational information on this website does not determine that a particular person’s experience legally or institutionally falls within any particular category.
If a specific classification matters to your situation, the appropriate school, employer, organization, professional, agency, or other responsible authority may need to evaluate the actual facts and the standards that apply.
Learning About Reporting Is Not the Same as Making a Report
BBGPResources.com may provide educational information about reporting, documenting concerns, communicating with responsible people, asking questions, or seeking help.
Learning about those subjects is different from actually submitting a report to the person or organization responsible for receiving it.
Submitting information to BBGPResources.com is not the same as reporting an emergency or making a report to a school, employer, law-enforcement agency, or other responsible authority.
If you intend to make an official report, complaint, request for assistance, or other formal communication, make sure it reaches the person, organization, agency, or authority responsible for receiving it.
If There Is Immediate Danger
BBGPResources.com is not an emergency-response service.
If you or another person is in immediate danger or needs urgent assistance, use the emergency or immediate-help resources appropriate to the situation and your location.
Do not rely on BBGPResources.com or a website submission as a way to obtain emergency assistance.
Information for Young People, Families, Educators, and Others
Bullying-related situations can affect young people, parents and families, educators, schools, workplaces, organizations, and communities.
BBGPResources.com is designed to make educational information understandable and useful across those settings.
When a young person’s situation requires a decision, formal report, professional assessment, medical or mental-health care, school action, legal determination, or immediate protection, the appropriate responsible adult, qualified professional, organization, or authority may need to become involved.
Educational information can help people prepare for those conversations and actions, but it does not replace them.
Use the Information as a Starting Point, Not as a Decision Made for You
A useful educational resource should help you think more clearly—not simply tell you what conclusion to reach.
As you use BBGPResources.com, consider:
What am I trying to understand?
What facts or information do I already have?
What questions still need answers?
Who may be responsible for answering those questions?
Is there a policy, procedure, professional, organization, or authority I should consult?
What can I do to become better prepared for the next conversation or step?
Different situations may require different answers.
The goal of BBGPResources.com is to support informed learning and preparation while leaving individualized decisions with the people and authorities appropriately positioned to make them.
Responsible Use of BBGPResources.com
You can use this educational environment to learn, prepare questions, consider communication, explore prevention and help-seeking concepts, and become better oriented before deciding what additional information or assistance you may need.
When relying on information from the site:
- consider the circumstances in which the information is being used;
- recognize that laws, policies, procedures, and professional standards can differ;
- verify information that must be current or specific to your circumstances;
- seek appropriately qualified assistance when individualized expertise is needed; and
- contact the responsible authority directly when you intend to make an official report or request action.
Being informed is valuable.
Knowing the limits of general information is part of using that information responsibly.