Christ-Centered Program Helps Teachers & Students Resist Bullying

[Update: Listen to Frank DiLallo interviewed (Feb. 19) on the Son Rise Morning Show, a program heard nationwide on 180 Catholic radio stations.]

Frank DiLallo, who serves the Diocese of Toledo as Prevention/Intervention Schools Consultant, will present workshops describing Peace Be With You: Christ-Centered Bullying Solution, his unique set of anti-bullying resources for Catholic schools, at two upcoming national conferences.

DiLallo has been invited to make presentations at the Los Angeles Religious Education Conference (Feb. 22-24, 2013) and at the National Catholic Educational Association annual conference, scheduled for April 2-4, 2013, in Houston.

The Peace Be With You resources he authored, which are published by the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Press at the University of Notre Dame, constitute the only Christian, Scripture-based bullying prevention program available for students in grades 4-8.

This three-phase anti-bullying program for Catholic and Christian schools is a valuable tool for administrators and teachers working with students to address bullying situations. The program helps teachers and students manage stress, build leadership skills and supportive peer relationships, and contribute to a Christ-centered school environment by developing specific skill sets.

ACE Press also publishes and sells DiLallo’s parallel resource package for public and secular school districts, with the program titled Peace2U: Three Phase Bullying Solution. The Scripture-based Peace Be With You materials include a Teacher’s Manual, a separate student workbook, and a digital download of the Peace2U Stress Less Series audio file

The Peace Be With You Catholic school program that DiLallo will be describing at the upcoming conferences has been fully implemented in 40 schools of the Toledo Diocese. The Most Rev. Leonard P. Blair, STD, Bishop of Toledo, says this of the program and its author:

“Frank DiLallo brings a wealth of professional experience and insight to a problem that plagues so many of our schools and harms so many children. His Christ-centered solution opens up a new and hopeful path for people of faith.”

See Toledo television coverage of the anti-bullying program.

The program has been implemented or piloted in numerous schools in several dioceses around the country, including the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, and the Diocese of Steubenville.

See coverage in the San Francisco archdiocesan newspaper. Scroll to page CSW-16.

Sister Julia Hutchinson of the Diocese of Charleston, who was superintendent of South Carolina’s Catholic schools from 2005 to 2010, states this in her review of the program: “Frank DiLallo has brought Christ to concerned educators and to the center of the bullying solution.”

In addition to consulting on prevention/intervention for 78 Catholic schools in the Toledo Diocese, where he has been employed since 1990, DiLallo is director of Consulting and Training Services, LLC. The firm provides educational training opportunities on bullying prevention and intervention for educators across the country.

DiLallo holds a B.A. in sociology and a master’s degree in education, and he has completed post-graduate doctoral coursework in clinical psychology. He is licensed as a professional counselor in Ohio and is state certified as a prevention specialist. In 2010, he was a contributing author to Stepping Stones to Success: Experts Share Strategies for Mastering Business, Life, and Relationships.

Find more information about DiLallo and Peace Be With You at acepress.nd.edu.