Six Ways to Boost Your “Habits of Helping”
In 2008, I lost my job of 20 years and uprooted my family to pursue a new position. The move strained my marriage, my relationship with my son, my sense of well-being. Like many Americans in their 50s who thought they were more or less past any financial worries, I found myself anxious for the first time in years. I know my story is not unusual.
Bystander Intervention Resources
Bystander Intervention Training Hollaback! provides trainings on how to do your part to protect your neighbors and co-workers when bias and harassment collide in front of you. What’s worse than being targeted with harassment because of your race, sex, religion, color, gender, size, orientation, disability, age, or origin? Being targeted while surrounded by bystanders who see what is happening, but then do nothing.
Eye power is no power leh! – Consensus
By Lynn Chia ‘Eye power’, as quintessentially Singaporean as it sounds, is really not just a Singaporean thing. A local social experiment produced in 2014 on the passive bystander effect was one of the first local experiments that shed light on the importance of the diffusion of responsibility. In the social experiment, when the injured actor and the blind actor collided in an accident, many people exercised their ‘eye power’ by standing by without helping despite having witnessed the incident.
Cellphone footage captures woman being violently beaten as young son tries to intervene in Salem, New Jersey
SALEM, N.J. - A young mother in southern New Jersey was viciously beaten by another woman as the victim's young son looked on, reports CBS Philly. Video of the assault was later posted on Facebook. The altercation occurred outdoors Tuesday in Salem, N.J., according to the station. Police have identified the suspect as 25-year-old Latia Harris. Chief John Pelura III said that, once apprehended, Harris will face charges of aggravated assault and two counts of terroristic threats.
TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — ITE College East has suspended a student seen kicking and punching another in a video that has gone viral on social media. The police confirmed that a report has been lodged and investigations are in progress. When contacted, the school confirmed the incident and said the assault took place in one of its toilets last Wednesday (Feb 8). “ITE takes a serious view of the matter, and does not condone such acts. ITE College East will cooperate with police investigations,” the school’s principal Dr Yek Tiew Ming said in a statement.
Strategies for Effective Helping - Step UP! Program
In addition to the 5 Decision Making Steps (Notice the event; Interpret it as a problem; Assume personal responsibility; Know how to help; Implement the help – Step UP!), there are a number of strategies you can use for effective helping. (For action steps in each topic area please go to that specific topic): The 5 Ds Direct – You directly intervene in a situation. Always be safe and carefully consider the best way to intervene.
Alan Berkowitz, Ph.D.
In these clips I share stories of myself as a bystander and how I responded, along with advice for intervening successfully. "I was taught to confront bad behavior pretty aggressively. (Call someone out.) It was never well received and was totally ineffective.
Breaking the silence - preventing harassment and sexual misconduct
Be an Active Bystander We can all be bystanders. Every day events unfold around us. At some point, we will register someone in danger. When this happens, we will decide to do or say something (and become an active bystander), or to simply let it go (and remain a passive bystander).
Two suspects arrested over video of three teens being brutally beaten at California skate park
A 35-year-old man and 17-year-old boy have been arrested in connection with a violent attack on three teenage boys at a skate park in California. The fight at Community Park in Moreno Valley on Saturday was witnessed by at least a dozen people and was captured on video that has since gone viral. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department announced Tuesday that two suspects, a 17-year-old boy and 35-year-old Robert Lee Aaron III, were taken into custody. Police are still searching for another 17-year-old suspect involved in the fight, as well as other persons of interest. An investigation was launched when a bystander posted a video of the fight on Instagram. It shows a man in a white tank top approaching a boy sitting in a picnic area at the park and telling him: 'What the f*** you doin' my n****?
Passers-by help block off open manhole on road, Singapore News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
Two groups of Good Samaritans sprang into action the last two days - the first to help a boy trapped under a car after an accident, the second to warn other road users to avoid an exposed manhole. The sight of a lorry swerving to avoid an exposed manhole in Jalan Bahar spurred several Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers and passers-by to do something about the problem yesterday. SCDF fire biker Muhammad Hilmi Mohammad Fuad, 31, was travelling out of the Civil Defence Academy at around 10.45am when he saw the open manhole on the three-lane road. The senior staff sergeant rallied six others in the vicinity, including off-duty SCDF officers, to help.
