Creative Activities to Prevent Bullying on Special Needs Students

Bullying has become major problem worldwide with serious consequences not only for the life of students (anxiety, depression, isolation, decreased academic achievement, even school dropout), but also with great impacts on the mental and emotional health on the adulthood. Latest research show that at the adult age, victims may experience low self-esteem and self-confidence, depression, eating disorders, and other mental health problems, while bullies can engage in criminal and antisocial behavior, drugs use, domestic violence etc.The goal of the project is to provide a widely usable training solutions and bullying prevention and intervention skills, as well as to raise awareness on school bullying danger among the target groups as a stringent issue with long term consequences on teenagers mental and emotional health. Having a transnational character (RO, LT, TR, GR, IT), the project will facilitate partner cooperation and the exchange of expertise, good practices and methodologies, resulting training and educational materials of high quality sensitive to European social and cultural diversity. This will enhance the positive impact and the transferability in EU.The project follow the specific objectives:-Raise awareness on bullying prevention and correct intervention and equip over 12000 students from special learning and mixed schools with preventing and intervention knowledge, skills, increased empathy, tolerance and positive attitude by developing a participatory interactive digital exhibition and creative workshop guidelines. -Raise awareness, increase competence and intervention capacity in bullying prevention and efficient intervention of 10000 teachers and educators from special education and mixed schools and provide them creative and effective methodologies, methods, tools in a training package consisting of a piloted curriculum and training materials, creative and coping workshops and an interactive digital exhibition for the diminishing of this important educational problem in the European schools in the 24 months project span.Creativity STOPS Bullying project addresses a highly important and hot topic that affects the educational systems across Europe, offering improved knowledge, skills and practices for prevention and intervention in bullying on hearing impairments teenagers, in a highly accessible and attractive manner using recognized and validated training methodology, guidelines for creative therapeutic workshops and interactive storytelling exhibition.The project will develop the skills of teachers to use creative methods and tools to prevent and to intervene in bullying situations on high school students with hearing impairments, by elaborating a solid and highly innovative training package and creative and therapeutic workshop guidelines. The project result will consist in very useful tools for teachers on a highly important topic for them, since the bullying phenomenon has reached alarming levels in recent years in Europe and around the world, being adapted to their work with high school students with hearing impairments.All the activities and intellectual outputs are designed to foster social inclusion, by developing self-awareness, self-expression, empathy and communication skills of teenagers, as well as breaking stereotypes and changing their attitudes related to vulnerable and disadvantaged high school students, especially to those with hearing impairments