Wearing green — his favorite color — friends, family, and community members came together in the place he loved to play.
Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) is designed to give young people a path away from violence.
Tour speakers held students' attention after their high-flying acrobatics by weaving in impactful stories of love, support, perseverance and messages on how to cope with bullying.
GREAT stands for Gang Resistance Education and Training.
Jonathon White, a social work therapist at Norton Healthcare, said some people can be overwhelmed with the senseless act of violence and other traumatic events.
"Can't believe how awful kids are," Ellis Landreth, 24, wrote on Friday, explaining that her little brother was being bullied for setting up an Instagram account to review his favorite books.
Students at Byck Elementary School learned to "Just say 'Whoa!" to bullying with the help of Sadie the miniature horse.
A Louisville mother says her 8-year-old son was bullied so badly at school he asked how to take his own life.
Dozens of students protested at Highland Hills Middle School on Thursday after a student was pulled out of class for wearing a T-shirt her parents say administrators called "disruptive."
The case claims negligent supervision by JCPS, that the district violated its own bullying policies and mandated reporting requirements for incidents involving students with special needs.