INCIDENT? START HERE | No Place for Hate

Improve your school climate through anti-bias and bullying prevention education.

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INCIDENT? START HERE

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INCIDENT? START HERE

If your school has experienced a bias or hate incident, we are here for you.

First, Be Sure to Intervene

How you respond to incidents conveys important messages about your school's culture and climate.

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Minimize Harm

Affected students feel supported and valued when the incident is addressed.

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Increase Allyship

When students and staff witness the right response, they can replicate it in their own interactions.

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Create Teachable Moments

Turn incidents into learning opportunities about the impact of bias behavior.

GET THE GUIDE

Learn best practices and strategies to respond to bias incidents at your middle or high school.

Download the Incident Response Guide

P.E.A.C.E. — A Proactive Approach to Incident-Response

Adopt our P.E.A.C.E. framework to prepare and respond to hate and bias-related incidents in your school.

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Prevent and Prepare.

Be ready for incidents so that you can act quickly when something happens.

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Encourage Reporting.

Young people are often reluctant to tell adults about incidents because they believe it won’t help and may make things worse.

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Act Quickly and Respond.

Every reported incident should be responded to in a serious manner which conveys a message that the behavior is unacceptable.

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Communicate.

Ensure that everyone understands the reporting procedures. When an incident occurs, keep all members of the school community informed.

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Educate and Heal.

Teaching about bias and how to challenge it is important before an incident occurs and essential to recovery when something does happen.

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Additional Resources

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Student Mini-Lessons

Explore our interactive, online lessons designed for students.

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Educator Mini-Lessons

ADL offers short, self-guided learning modules to help familiarize educators with ADL's anti-bias framework, core themes, and topics