It's time to make a pledge against bullying.
Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and Bell Media, the parent company of AM800 and CTV Windsor, have launched an anti-bullying campaign aimed at raising awareness of the emotion, physical and psychological effects of bullying.
Executive Director of the Windsor Youth Centre Tamara Kowalska calls "bullying a form of violence".
She works with homeless youth in the community and feels bullying is learned behaviour.
"I work with some of the toughest looking kids in the city but when they walk through the doors of the Windsor Youth Centre, it is please and thank you, there are manners," says Kowalska.
She says the campaign needs to focus on adults.
(Credit: Executive Director of the Windsor Youth Centre speaks at the campaign launch to end bullying. November 4, 2016. Photo by Teresinha Medeiros)
"Homeless youth and this is a stat that they are homeless because the adults in their lives are not safe to be around, that is why youth are homeless," says Kowalska. "In my experience, children are bullied more by adults than by each other."
The Windsor Youth Centre has taken the pledge.
Stats show one in three adolescents are affected by bullying and 64% of youth in Canada have been bullied at school.