Would you like to help children avoid depression, overwhelming anxiety, school phobia, drugs and alcohol, cutting themselves, dropping out of school, gangs, cults, hate groups, suicide and shooting others in their schools?   

If so, by donating to Bully Free System, LLC you will be improving and even saving the lives of children by preventing and stopping bullying.  You will help us make homes, communities and schools more peaceful places where people obey the Golden Rule – Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Please read the section below:  Why Help Prevent and Stop Bullying.

Your donation will be used to provide schools with grants for implementing the Bully Free Program. The grants will help schools obtain anti-bullying materials and training.

We welcome all levels of donation, whether it's a one-time gift or a monthly donation.  You can also designate your donation for certain areas of the United States.  Your donation will not be used for administration of the program.

Please make checks payable to Bully Free Systems, LLC. 

Mail your check to: 

Bully Free Systems, LLC
262 Ironwood Drive
Murray, Kentucky 42071 

For more information, call 1-270-227-0431. 

Why Help Prevent and Stop Bullying 

• 3.7 million youth engage in bullying each year (American Medical Association)
• 3.2 million youth are victims of moderate or serious bullying each year (American Medical Association)
• Bullying has been declared a violation of civil rights
• Numerous lawsuits (victims suing school systems)
• Numerous criminal cases because of bullying
• Bullying occurs in every school (20% or more are victims of bullying)
• Bullying happens every 7 minutes on elementary playgrounds (Pepler, Craig, and Roberts, 1998)
• 160,000 students per day stay home from school because of bullying (National Association of School Psychologists)
• 7% of eighth graders stay home at least once a month because of bullies (Banks, 2000)
• Bullying creates a fearful environment that impacts learning.  Approximately 14% of 8th through 12th graders and 22% of 4th through 8th graders surveyed reported that bullying diminished their ability to learn in school; (Hoover and Oliver, 1996)
• A study by the National Threat Assessment Center found that in more than two thirds (2/3) of the 37 school shootings since 1974 the attackers felt “persecuted, bullied or threatened.”  In over half, revenge was the motivation. (Bowman, 2001)
• Over 90% of school shootings involved young boys who were relentlessly tormented and bullied because they were considered unmanly or not aggressive enough. (Michael Kimmel)
• Bullied children seek acceptance and a sense of belonging by joining and/or forming gangs, cults, hate groups, and drug groups.
• Bullying causes post traumatic stress in some victims (Kinchin, 2001)
• Bullying causes “toxic shame” that creates lack of trust and hopelessness (Garbarino, 1999)
• 30% of youth suicides are because of bullying (Hawker and Boulton, 2000)
• Victims often engage in self-mutilation “to release the pain of being bullied”
• 10% of dropouts do so because of repeated bullying (Weinhold and Weinhold, 1998)
• Bullying causes children to runaway
• Bullying causes eating disorders
• Bullying causes low self-esteem
• Bullying causes withdrawal, depression, and anxiety disorders
• Bullying is a root cause of discipline problems:  Bullied children often become behavior problems after the bullying and those problems get worse (Schwartz, McFayden-Ketchum, Dodge, Pettit and Bates, 19998)
• Bullying causes long-lasting harmful emotional effects (Olweus, 1993; McMaster, Connolly, Pepler and Craig, 1998) – may affect their work performance as adults
• Hostile kids are more likely to have diabetes and heart attacks in the future (Matthews, 2002)
• Hinders full inclusion of students with disabilities
• Bullying may even cause teen pregnancies – to have someone to love and to love them unconditionally
• Bullying creates societal problems
  • Bullies identified by age eight are six times more likely to be convicted of a crime by age 24 and five times more likely than non-bullies to end up with serious criminal records by age 30 (Olweus, 1991)
  • 60% of students characterized as bullies by grade 6-9 had at least one criminal conviction by age 24 and 40% had three or more arrests. (Olweus, 1991)
  • Bullies grow up and often abuse their spouse, children and co-workers.