Category: Press

To fight cyberbullying, school makes students online hall monitors

July 13, 2015 by Wendy Lee, San Francisco Chronicle

Students at Pasadena High School train as Safe School Ambassadors to stop cyberbullying.

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New Study: Cool Kids Get Bullied Too

April 2, 2014 – KQED Forum with Michael Krasny

CM founder Rick Phillips joins a panel of experts on bullying to discuss a study of North Carolina youth that showed a surprising increase in bullying victimization as they went higher up the social ladder.

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Safe School Ambassadors lead the change

March 3, 2014 OpEd by Karla Conroy, SSA Program Advisor, Adele Harrison Middle School, Sonoma Index-Tribune

The Community Matters Safe School Ambassadors program, and the Waking Up Courage Assembly, have led to a change in the school environment at Adele Harrison Middle School.

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HuffPost Greatest Person Of The Day: Rick Phillips Stops Bullying From The Inside Out

May 9, 2011 by Lucas Kavner, Huffington Post

Community Matters founder Rick Phillips discusses his journey from childhood to a career in education, and ultimately to the founding of Community Matters and the creation of the Safe School Ambassadors® Program.

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