although we have made a lot of strides, we realize long ago that affecting the type of comprehensive change we hope for would require numerous donated efforts across several federal agencies. five years ago attorney general eric holder and secretary arnie duncan launched the support of school initiative and has retained the backing of our current leadership. they aim to foster safe, supportive and productive learning environments keeping students and gauged in school and out of courts. along side of health human services, they provide content for stop bullying.org. its resources are tailored to young people, their parents, educators and educators and others who are working with young people stop bullying..gov works closely with the federal partners and their steering

committee. they are proud member of that interagency effort to cordon a policy, research and communications on bullying topics. with the department of education , agriculture, defense, hhs and the interior, the federal trade commission and the white house initiative on asian-americans and pacific islanders. we spearheaded that partnership stop bullying video challenge and the challenge initiative with the cartoon network. a special thanks to oj p for their tireless support in these efforts. information on all of these resources and events is available at stop bullying.gov. in addition to the dear colleague letter that was mentioned earlier, they collaborated with the educational opportunity section and the department of education to produce the bullying

harassment and civil-rights video. this video which focuses on the federal laws relating to bullying and harassment features messages from assistant attorney general for the office of justice program carol mason. former education sec. arnie degen, assistant secretary for civil rights catherine lehman and the oscar-winning actor morgan freeman. it's also available on the website. they join forces with hhs and dark doj sister agencies the civil right division, community relations services and the office of community oriented policing services for a webinar on preventing bullying of and discrimination against muslim youth. oj jvp will follow up a webinar to that next month. we have over 14 webinars on bullying at our online university.

the materials from these webinars is available through our national trade and technical assistance center. finally, the national institute of justice, doj's research development and evaluation agency has funded research on teen dating violence as part of the violence against women act since 2008, and several other programs examining the relationship between bullying and teen dating violence. that was a lot of information. my head is a little full. the harmful effects of bullying cannot be overstated. is a complex social and emotional phenomenon that affects far too many children and far too many children that we are seeing within our juvenile justice system. it's a complex problem that cannot be solved with simple solutions. all that i've shared with you this morning was meant to demonstrate how dedicated we are to combating bullying in any

form of child victimization and how much we can accomplish when we join forces. we are very proud of what we have achieved together doing during these obama administration years and we look forward to continuing to champion this cause with you in the years to come. thank you very much. [applause] what a great way to start our morning. >> lets give everyone around of applause again. thank you so much for your inspiring words and leadership. before we get started today, i would like to go over a few housekeeping notes so i would like to point out the location of all the restrooms.

we have the women's restrooms located on the left out the door and all the way at the end of the hallway, just a on the side, the men's restroom are located to the right at the end of the hall. you just walked out where you see the elevator bank and keep going. we also have an all-inclusive restroom it's located on the right if you walk outside the back door of the auditorium it will be there on your right. we have breakout rooms, they are also located out the back door to the right and i will just go over at the breakout sessions are in case you don't have your agenda. leveraging backup resources to prevent bullying is in 1w114. what happens when a set, filmmaker and lawmaker join forces, the campaign to end bullying is in room 103. the discussion about bullying based on gender, gender identity and sexual orientation will be here in pinard auditorium. bullying against muslim, arab and south asian students will be in 1w105108. it's a combined room so that's

why you see two room numbers. support intervention and best practices to prevent bullying's of students with disability and i know that's a lot of information right now but we will have people pointing out and helping you figure out where you need to go in the afternoon. additionally, we are aware that some attendees may desire space for prayer or personal reflection during the summit. room 1w105/108 will be available from one to two for this use. if you just go out the back doors to your right. now i would like to take a few minutes to thank everyone who is responsible for bringing this event together. this truly was across government collaborative effort. employees from the department of education, health and human services work together to bring us here today. if everyone who's here from the summit planning committee could

stand, the people standing are phenomenal and i'm so thankful to have worked with them on this event. let's give them all a big round of applause. they are responsible for all the speakers you will hear from today and for all of the great content that will be discussed. in addition i would like to thank the federal partners in bullying prevention for gathering us here today. think you for your sustained efforts around bullying prevention and for pushing the conversation forward. i would like to thank them for donating the in-kind support of their contractors, affirmative solutions and would meyer firm partners. they are a delight to work with and honestly we wouldn't be here without them. i just want to say thank you to them from the bottom of my heart we are actually running a little bit early which i don't think

has happened for us before so we are going to take a short stretch bake so if everyone can be back here in seven minutes we will start the first panel at that time. there will be a little bit early but i will give you some time to walk around before we get started. seven minutes please.

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once again we are live for coverage of an education department hosted summit on bullying. it features panels of educators and researchers. it is expected to wrap up late this afternoon, probably around 430. let me quickly run through some of the sessions that are coming up. the next session will be on how recent research recommendation and full surveillance impacts bullying prevention efforts. it'll be a short break around 10:30 and a session on legal responses to harassment and bullying. session three is using school operation plans and supporting bullying prevention efforts. there will be a brief break for lunch and it session on strategies to create safe understandings in an inclusive academic environment. there will be a discussion on