Olweus Bullying Prevention Program

Welcome to the Clemson University, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, website for the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP). The OBPP is only one of the programs conducted by IFNL. For more information about the institute, please visit (www.clemson.edu/ifnl).

The Olweus Program (pronounced Ol-VEY-us; the E sounds like a long A) is a comprehensive, school-wide program designed and evaluated for use in elementary, middle, or junior high schools. The program’s goals are to reduce and prevent bullying problems among school children and to improve peer relations at school. The program has been found to reduce bullying among children, improve the social climate of classrooms, and reduce related antisocial behaviors, such as vandalism and truancy. Schools are also gathering data about OBPP implementation at the High School level. The Olweus Program has been implemented in more than a dozen countries around the world, and in thousands of schools in the United States.

If you are a parent, educator, school administrator, or other concerned adult who may be interested in implementing the Olweus program, please click here to go our more comprehensive program website, maintained by the Hazelden Foundation at www.Olweus.org. At Olweus.org, you will find general information about bullying behavior and its impact on school climate and student health and academic achievement. You will find basic information about the Olweus Program’s components, a suggested timeline, information on required program materials, cost of the program, state anti-bullying laws, grant writing support and much more. You might like to take the time to view the overview video, explore the Olweus Survey, and view short video clips from the program materials.

This website, maintained by Clemson University, is focused on bullying prevention research, OBPP training information, and ongoing programming and training support of our National Olweus Trainers.

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program has received recognition from a number of organizations committed to preventing school violence. The program has been named:

Blueprints Model Program, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado at Boulder
Effective Program, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice
Level 2 Program, U.S. Department of Education ("Level 2" programs have been scientifically demonstrated to prevent delinquency or reduce risk and enhance protection for delinquency and other child and youth problems using either an experimental or quasi-experimental research design with a comparison group.

The OBPP has recently been endorsed in the American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement. Read the statement here.

To learn about Dr. Dan Olweus, OBPP Founder, and the US Executive Director, Dr. Susan Limber, click here and the US Program Directors: Marlene Snyder, Director of Development; Jane Riese, Director of Training; Vicki Flerx and then Nancy Mullin. click here.

For a list of research articles on the effectiveness of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, click here.

If you are looking for information about costs of materials to engage for training for your school’s Bullying Prevention Coordinating Committee, click here. (This should link to the program materials site at www.olweus.org.

A list of our Olweus Trainers is available here.

If you are interested in becoming a Certified Olweus Trainer click here.

A grant writing tool kit with all budget information is available at the www.Olweus.org site or by calling 1-800-328-9000.

To access the Trainer Only Section of this website you must be a Certified Olweus Trainer.
For information about the United State’s efforts in bullying prevention, check out the website for HRSA's National Bullying Prevention Campaign, "Take a Stand. Lend a Hand. Stop Bullying Now," click here.

Recognition of the Program