Get Help Now
This website offers tips for kids, teens, and adults for actionable steps to take to get help in the face of bullying.
How to Talk About Bullying
This short webpage includes tips for youth and tips for parents & caregivers about how to talk about bullying.
Report Cyberbullying
This short webpage offers steps to take immediately if experiencing cyberbullying, how to report it to a variety of online platforms, and when to report to law enforcement and schools.
Bullying Prevention and Preparedness Modelling
In this panel discussion, experts share upstream practices that will help schools reduce instances of bullying. Additionally, panelists discuss best practices for involving school staff and broaching conversations with students.
Bullying Prevention Through Empathy
This session first explains the key research findings in classroom empathy activities before providing concrete ideas for project-based and experiential learning to decrease peer aggression offline and online, and promote intervening behaviors from bystanders.
Credit Bureau Contacts
“Contact the three nationwide credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — to request free fraud alerts, credit freezes, active duty military credit monitoring, and opt outs from prescreened credit offers.”
Recovery Steps
This webpage has a check-able list to help those who may have experienced identity theft or fraud know what to do immediately, walks them through next steps, includes information for specific types of account issues, and information for specific identity theft types.
Child Identity Theft
In this webinar, the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs discusses the warning signs of child identity theft and ways to protect your child’s information. They talk about how to check a child’s credit report and what to do if something fraudulent is found.
When information is lost or exposed
This article includes information and useful links for key steps on protecting yourself from identity theft if your information is at risk, including specific steps based on type of information.
Know Your Rights
This webpage includes information about your rights when reporting and recovery from identity theft and fraud. It also includes information about your rights working with credit bureaus, communicating with creditors and debt collectors, limits on financial losses, and other federal rights.