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Help line in the works for cyberbullying victims

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A grassroots organization is working on a help line to support kids dealing with cyberbullying and other online issues, particularly on social networks.

In an interview Wednesday following a meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force at Harvard University, Parry Aftab, the director of the national advocacy group WiredSafety, said her organization had started working on a pilot project to support cyber-bullying targets in West Chester County, New York.

Aftab and three student volunteers from WiredSafety's Teenangels program spoke at the conference. Teenangels was started in 1999 as a mentoring program that trains teenagers to teach … Read more