ABSTRACT
The Health of Men (HoM) anti-bullying work began when the Airedale team were asked by health visitors in Scarborough if they did any work around bullying and young men. One of the HoM workers had personal experience of being bullied at school and this provided an additional motivation to set up an anti-bullying programme, with support from a youth worker. Most of the anti-bullying sessions take place in primary schools but a lot of the work is also done in the community, working with youth groups and trying to get youth workers to see what bullying is and how it can occur. Youth workers have children and young men coming through their doors wanting to talk about feelings of being bullied, either in the community or at work. Teachers generally welcome the idea of having the sessions because the anti-bullying message can come over better from a visitor, rather than from a teacher who's in the school full time.
