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PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT US...
ONE SURVIVOR'S EXTRAORDINARY
QUEST TO PREVENT SCHOOL BULLYING


JODEE BLANCO BOOK TOUR

Wednesday, August 4th &
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
St. Mary's County Public Schools
Loveville, Maryland
Keynote at School Kick Off Event
Evening Seminar & Book Signing

Friday, August 20th, 2010
St. Mary's County Public Schools
Loveville, Maryland
District wide staff workshop
Evening Seminar & Book Signing

Monday, August 23rd &
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Montgomery Catholic Prep School
Montgomery, Alabama
Day long INJJA Program
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
Time & Location TBA

Monday, August 30th,
Tuesday, August 31st &
Wednesday, September 1st 2010
Academy of Our Lady of Guam
Hagatha, Guam
Three Day Long INJJA Programs
Evening Parent/Family
Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
Location & Time TBA

Wednesday, September 8th &
Thursday, September 9th, 2010
St. Mary's County Public Schools
Loveville, Maryland
Day long INJJA Seminars
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
Times & Locations TBA

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Meyer Academy
West Palm Beach, Florida
Day Long INJJA Program
Evening Parent/Family Seminar
& Book Signing
3261 North Military Trail
West Palm Beach, FL
Time TBA
  
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
St. John Vianney School
Janesville, Wisconsin   
Day Long INNJA Program
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
1250 East Racine
Janesville, WI
7-9:00pm

Wednesday, September 22 , 2010
Sacred Heart Catholic School
Hallettsville, Texas
Day long INJJA Program
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
313 South Texana
Hallettsville, TX
Time TBA

Friday, September 24th
Central Community Unit School
District #301, 30109
Day Long INJJA Program
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Open to the Public Evening Parent/Family Seminar &Book Signing
Location & Time TBA

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Academy of Holy AngelsRichfield, Minnesota
Day Long INJJA Program
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
Location & Time TBA

Monday, October 4, 2010
Forsyth Country Day School
Lewisville, North Carolina
Day-Long INJJA Program
Evening Parent/Family Seminar
& Book Signing
Location & Time TBA

Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Maryland Suicide Prevention Conference
Baltimore, Maryland
Keynote Address, Workshop
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
6717 Dogwood Road
Baltimore, MD
Time: TBA

Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Academy of Notre Dame
Villanova, PA
Day long INJJA Program
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
560 Sproul Road
Villanova, PA
7-9:00pm

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Melrose Area Public School, ISD 740
Melrose, Minnesota
Day Long INJJA Program
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
546 N. 8th Avenue East
Melrose, MN
7-9:00pm

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, Illinois
Two hour workshop

Thursday, October 21, 2010
ACCA of Albany New York
Albany, New York
Student Presentations &
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
Location & Time TBA

Friday, October 22, 2010
Diocese of Albany
Teachers Conference
Albany, New York
Keynote address
and break out session

Monday, October 25, 2010
The West Virginia Council for The Prevention of Suicide
Morgantown, West Virginia
Three hour staff workshop

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Cretin Derham Hall
St. Paul, Minnesota
Day Long INJJA Program
Evening Seminar & Book Signing
Free & Open to the public
550 S. Albert Street
St.Paul, MN
Time: 7-9:00pm

Thursday, November 4, 2010
Nativity Catholic School
Burke, Virginia
Day-Long INJJA Program
Evening Parent/Family Seminar
& Book Signing
Location & Time TBA

Wednesday, November 10, 2010
LaSalle Academy
Providence, Rhode Island
Day-Long INJJA Program
Evening Parent/Family Seminar
& Book Signing

Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Fairlawn Academy
Fairlawn, Ohio
Day-Long INJJA Program
Evening Parent/Family Seminar
& Book Signing

For more information about our tour,
please email The Blanco Group at: info@jodeeblanco.com, or
call 708-873-9225.

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October is National
Anti-Bullying Month:
Schedule Jodee to speak at
your school during the month
of October 2010 and aid in the
efforts to prevent bullying in
our nations schools!
 
Special Note: To commemorate the release of the revised version of Jodee Blanco's New York Times bestselling memoir, Please Stop Laughing at Me..., The Blanco Group will be offering a special rate to any school/ and or organization who schedule a speaking engagement by June 1st, 2010 for the Fall of 2010. Please call The Blanco Group for further information.

My new book, Please Stop Laughing at Us...One Survivor's Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying was released in March 2008. This book is a sequel that picks up where the first book left off and offers solutions for parents, teachers, students and adult survivors. It's set against the narrative back drop of my own personal struggle, turning pain into purpose. If you want to see the press kit for this new book you'll find it under the media room tab on this website.

     

Welcome to our website - yes, yours and mine. Because chances are, if you've landed here, you and I share something important in common. Both of us have been deeply affected by school bullying and peer abuse. Maybe you're a teen who's lonely and sad because no matter how hard you try to fit in at school, your classmates laugh at you behind your back and constantly pick on you. Maybe you're the bully, or even the bystander, the person who sees another student being hurt and humiliated but who does nothing to help. Perhaps you're a parent who can't stand one more day of watching your child suffer at the hands of his peers simply for being different. You might even be the mom or dad of a bully, and at your wit's end over what to do about it. Or, maybe you're an educator or counselor, frustrated by the pain you witness, yet feeling powerless to stop it.

No matter who you identify with above, I can promise you from my heart that you've come to the right place. Take a moment, close your eyes and breathe. There are solutions. Someone does understand. That someone is me.

Though you'd probably never know it if you met me now, during my adolescence from 5th grade through senior year of high school, I was tormented by my classmates, a total "outcast." Remember the Stephen King movie Carrie? What I went through in school makes that character's experiences seem like a Disney movie. I couldn't do what you have to do to be "cool." I wasn't good at all the things that makes someone popular in school - I didn't want to make fun of the chubby girl with glasses, the gay student, or the shy kid at the back of the class. If I saw something going on I didn't like, I spoke up. These might be great qualities to have when you're an adult, but they're not so wonderful when you're a teenager.

I remember being so lonely in school that I would sometimes wake up in the morning wishing myself to sickness so I wouldn't have to face the teasing and rejection I knew was coming the moment I walked through the school doors. And the harder I tried to fit in, the worse it always got. My parents tried everything to help, but nothing ever did. I wish that there had been someone like me now back then, who had endured the bullying and survived, who could have given us real advice on how to get through it all. Not a psychiatrist or academic, not a clergyman or counselor, but a real person who had been there herself and could show us a way out.

That's why I'm here today, and I think why circumstances have led you to this website. I'm forty five years old now and successful. I turned my pain into purpose - that purpose being to help you. If you've read my New York Times Best-Selling memoir PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT ME…, then you know what happened to me. If you haven't, I don't want to ruin the suprise except to say this: there's a happy ending to my story and there can be for you too. Hopefully, you'll find both information and comfort here.

I want you to know that I’m not just a face in cyberspace. Since the release of my books, I’ve been touring the nation’s schools sharing my story with students, teachers and parents in an effort to motivate change. My day-long in school program is called INJJA (It’s NOT Just Joking Around!) and if you’re interested in bringing me to your school, please go to the seminar tab of this website

I also work with organizations such as police, judicial, government, counseling, PTA’s, school boards, and youth groups. I’ve developed an instructional program for colleges and universities titled “The Desperate Freshman” where I work with administration, faculty, parents, students, and fraternities and sororities to help identify students at risk for becoming hazing and bullying targets. I can come to your school or town, too, and would be honored to be invited. I want to help. Please let me.

Let's get through this together,

Jodee Blanco

 

Special Note: To commemorate
the release of the revised version
of Jodee Blanco's New York Times bestselling memoir, Please Stop
Laughing at Me..., The Blanco
Group will be offering a special
rate to any school/ and or
organization who schedule a
speaking engagement by June 1st,
2010 for the Fall of 2010. Please
call The Blanco Group for
further information.

  
 
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