Arizona school system offers workshop designed to prevent bullying

Bullying and harassment are issues that school systems and parents are currently attempting to solve. Individuals who are smaller in size and shy in nature may have more trouble overcoming physical or emotional abuse because they believe they are not capable of standing up to their attackers. If left unchecked, this behavior can cause depression and sometimes even suicide.

To prevent this from happening, the Humboldt Unified School District - located in Arizona - recently partnered with organizers of the workshop Just Plain Mean: The Bullying Crisis," The Daily Courier reports.

The program's aim is to help parents, caregivers and students throughout grade school understand what constitutes bullying and how to effectively deal with it.

"So much of the brain develops between ages 0 and 5 years old," Wendy Watson, Prescott College faculty member, told the news source "And we pick up on modeling in our environment. That is how we learn to live in our world, whether we are raised in the United States, Russia, China or in a tribe in Third World Africa."

According to a survey conducted by the Cyberbullying Research Center, a total of 7.5 percent of students reported being bullied online in 2009.