Anti-Bullying Personnel

  • Anti-Bullying Coordinator

    Melanie Fillmyer

    District Supervisor of Guidance, Careers and Alternative Programs

    (609) 671-5458

     

    Responsibilities

    • Coordinate and strengthen the school district's policies on harassment, intimidation and bullying

    • Collaborate with each school's anti-bullying specialist

    • Provide data, in collaboration with the superintendent, to the NJDOE regarding harassment, intimidation and bullying

    • Meet at least twice a year with each school's anti-bullying specialists to discuss and strengthen procedures and policies to prevent, identify and address harassment, intimidation and bullying

     

     

Ben Franklin Anti-Bullying Specialists

School Safety Teams

  • School teams will consist of the building principal, or the principal's designee, a teacher, the anti-bullyinng specialist (s), a parent of a student in the school*, and other members as determined by the principal.

     

    Responsibilities

    • Receive the complaints of harassment, intimidation and bullying that have been reported to the principal

    • Receive copies of the investigation reports

    • Review and strengthen a school's policies that address harassment, intimidation and bullying

    • Educate the school community

    • Participate in training programs

    • Collaborate with the district's Anti-Bullying Coordinator in the collection of data and the development of the district's policies

     

    * To maintain student confidentiality, the parent named to the School Safety Team shall not receive the complaint or the investigation report, and shall not participate in identifying and addressing patterns of harassment, intimidation and bullying of students in the school.