and finally, we'll turn it over to michele ybarra. >> hi. wow, what a great panel, what an amazing morning it has been. also a lot of words, right? a lot of slides. thank you so much for sticking it in, sticking it through. you can notice i'm at the end which mean we are all getting towards the end. this is good news. so what i'm going to be doing today is, um, perhaps maybe pulling it all together, the panel all together, and at the same time doing a deeper dive, um, into some of these issues. we're going to get into some data and, um, give some numbers to some of the things that we're talking about in terms of bullying and suicidal ideation. as we've been talking about today, and i know that this is not the first time we've discussed it at this panel -- rather, at this, um, this conference. even last year there was this discussion about the relationship between suicide and bullying. and certainly the media seems to have made a decision that there is a strong link. if you were to do a search on bullying suicide, this is the first web site t

and finally we'll turn it over to michelle ybarra. >> hi.ng morning it has been. also a lot of words, right? a lot of slides. so thank you so much for sticking it in, sticking it through. you can notice i'm at the end which means we are all getting towards the end. this is good news. so what i'm going to be doing today is perhaps maybe pulling it all together, the panel all together, and at the same time doing a deeper dive, um, into only of these issues. we're going to get into some data and, um, give some numbers to some of the things that we're talking about in this terms of bullying and suicidal ideation. as we've been talking about today and i know that this is not the first time we've discussed it at this panel, rather at this, um, this conference, even last year there was this discussion about the relationship between suicide and bullying. and certainly, um, the media seems to have made a decision that there is a strong link. if you were to do a search on bullying-suicide, this is the first web site that comes up. very clearly, they s

dorothy, michele ybarra, and robert.llective knowledge of what causes bullying at how we can collectively stop it. armed with this information we can and we must take the right action. our department and our federal partners have released guidance letters about our civil rights laws, convened an expert panel to help develop a uniform definition of bullying that we can't do without, analyze the content of state antibullying laws, and launch stopbullying.gov, a new anti-bullying website that has already received over three quarters of a million hits since it was relaunched last april. we know there's so much more to do. we have to understand the extent of the problem. we can collect federal data and statewide data, but individual schools and communities need to understand their own unique circumstances in order to fully address this issue in a meaningful way. our young people are going to experience it took only about a third, only about a third of bullying incidents are ever reported to adults. so we need to ask the stude