BUFFALO, N.Y. — The third Wednesday of October is National Unity Day, a day founded by PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center to pledge to end bullying and wear orange.

“I think bullying has evolved because of the impacts of social media,” said Dr. Chelsey McCabe, manager of the children’s psychology clinic at Oishei’s Children’s Hospital. “We really [used to] just focus on in-person bullying that can happen at school or sports. Now we have bullying that happens when you’re at home.”

According to data from the National Bullying Prevention Center, one out of every five students report being bullied and 41% of them believed it would happen to them again.

This data also showed that school-based bullying prevention programs decrease bullying by up to 25%.

McCabe said when introducing a child to the internet, do so while closely monitoring how they use it, and identify mistakes as teachable moments.

“We have to teach kind of how to respond to bullies [and] how to respond if we notice that our kid does bully,” says McCabe, “…and being able to support rather than it be seen as something that the child did wrong.”