REGINA – SaskTel has revamped its cyberbullying prevention and awareness programs as ‘Be Kind Online’ in an effort to better meet the needs of a new generation.
‘Be Kind Online’ seeks to build on former program ‘I Am Stronger’ by continuing its partnership with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education as the official home of the province’s Report Bullying SK Student Online Reporting Tool that allows students to report incidents of bullying directly to the school or school division.
The program's new site is bekindonline.com and SaskTel has kicked off a mass-media cyberbullying awareness campaign that will carry on the work started under the program’s former name and with an increased emphasis on being kind online and off.
“It’s hard to believe how much the program has evolved since it first launched,” said Don Morgan, minister responsible for SaskTel, in the announcement. “It began as a social forum for youth to share their stories and learn from each other’s experiences. But it’s grown into something so much bigger, that the time was right for us to give it a name that better reflected what the program has become.”
Be Kind Online operates under the philosophy that the best way to prevent bullying is to help create a kinder world and has spent years putting this into practice. In addition to offering online resources, bekindonline.com is also home to the Be Kind Online grant that provides up to $1,000 to youth who would like help turning their bullying prevention or kindness promoting ideas into reality.
