Impact YPC

A Multifaceted Approach for the Reduction of Bullying

A project that aimed to lower bullying in schools by implementing city-wide educational programmes and developing a platform to support victims.

The central tenet of Impact YPC’s project was that the issue of bullying in schools must be tackled at the direct, structural and cultural levels to make any lasting, meaningful change.

They understood that to do so requires the buy-in of students, teachers, psychologists and victims. They launched their project with offline workshops – led by professionally-trained psychologists – and brought together students from four schools across the city of Gostivar. Then they followed up with six webinars to ensure that the issues they had introduced was part of an ongoing discussion.

And now they are developing an app so that young people can report bullying in their schools anonymously. It will allow counsellors the ability to reach out to victims immediately and school heads to get a better overview of the scale of bullying in their schools.