Lady Gaga Teams Up With Yale To Stop Bullying

Lady Gaga is one of the biggest names in anti-bullying. She started the Born This Way Foundation back in 2011 in an attempt to raise awareness of bullying and to teach others to embrace differences and individuality and helping youth deal with the problems they face.



She is now taking that message and making it mobile with the "Born This Way Bus". The Bus will be offering information on anti-bullying and suicide prevention services to young fans at 30 concerts, including one in Connecticut coming up in March. 


Yale scientist Dr. Marc Brackett will be monitoring and analyzing the success of the bus as it makes it's rounds. 
"The bigger project really is to help Lady Gaga and her foundation do the right kind of messaging to the world for bullying prevention and also help them evaluate what they're doing so they're doing it with real research minds behind it," said Dr. Brackett. "She's trying to eliminate the stigma associated with getting help when you need it for mental health problems but also making people aware that we have to live in a braver and kinder world."

Dr. Brackett has studied programs like the zero tolerance policies school put into place which don't have much effect in the long run.
It will be interesting to see if star power will have more of an effect on younger kids seeing as so much of today's society is celebrity-based. Do you think celebrities will get kids to listen more and bully less?


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