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Encourage young people not to stand by in silence. So much of this, if you are not the perpetrator, if you are the victim but you see it, empowering young people to do something about it when they spot it. Lastly, the partners recently announced a stop bullying video challenge where we are bringing together psas that highlight whats happening by young people and want to give awards and celebrate that. And, as i mentioned earlier, the grants, the money, the department of education has issued 11 grants to schools. We need more, we will see as budget proposals the president s and the secretarys r...

Giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ...

Things in communities across this country. So we have to get to work and we are, in fact, getting to work and i am so impressed at the partnerships that have been out here. Im so impressed that we recognize that bullying is no longer simply the bullying of your fists but its the bullying that can come through the use of twitter, through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crimes case involving an individual who called himself devilfish who over the internet was sending Death Threats to the heads of the National Council of irasa to other organizations that had the audacit...

Reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at...

Restoretive justice programs, the superintendent mentioned those. Those have shown real potential for doing good things in terms of preventing recidivism in the bullying context. A grant to boston for statewide bullying intervention, so theres a number of different places, portland, maine and elsewhere. If you have ideas you should never hesitate to call us. Were not a grant making arm in our division but we have the auspices of the department of justice so if its not mean ill make sure to funnel you to the right place so you can have that conversation. Tom, what else, are there other best pra...