{"id":22249,"date":"2024-10-31T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wsboces.org\/?page_id=22249"},"modified":"2024-10-31T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:24:54","slug":"dasa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wsboces.org\/dasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dignity for All Students Act (DASA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dr. Hugh Gigante, Western Suffolk BOCES Compliance Officer, 631-549-4900<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) was established by New York State to protect all students from harassment, bullying and discrimination. DASA prohibits bullying, harassment, discrimination, or cyberbullying against students in school based on the following: race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), sex or other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bullying<\/strong> is described as an unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bullying can occur before and after school hours, in a school building, on a playground, on a school bus while a student is traveling to or from school, or on the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Bullying can take many forms, including: physical abuse (pushing or hitting); verbal taunting (teasing, name calling or offensive jokes); social exclusion\/isolation; written harassment (graffiti, notes and drawings); and cyberbullying (texts, social media posts, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Harassment<\/strong> is defined as the creation of a hostile environment by conduct or verbal threats, intimidation, or abuse that has or would have the following effect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reasonably and substantially interfering with a student\u2019s educational performance, opportunities or benefits; or<\/li>\n<li>would reasonably be expected to cause a student to fear for his or her physical safety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Discrimination<\/strong> is the act of denying rights, benefits, justice, equitable treatment or access to facilities available to all others, to an individual or group of people because of the group, class or category to which that person belongs.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe you, or someone else, has been the target of harassment, bullying, cyber-bullying, and\/or discrimination, please\u00a0complete a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsboces.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WSBOCES-DASA-Incident-Report-Form-2024.pdf\"><strong><u>Western Suffolk BOCES<\/u><\/strong> <strong><u>DASA Incident Reporting Form<\/u><\/strong><\/a> and return it to a school administrator or Dignity Act Coordinator. All complaints will be treated in a confidential manner. Anonymous reports may limit the agency\u2019s ability to respond to the complaint. A prompt and thorough investigation will be conducted for all incident reports.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information about the Dignity for All Students Act, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p12.nysed.gov\/dignityact\/\">www.p12.nysed.gov\/dignityact\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Dignity Act Coordinator in your child\u2019s school.\u00a0The names, designated school and contact information for each school building\u2019s Dignity Act Coordinators\u00a0are provided below:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Western Suffolk BOCES Dignity Act Coordinators <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Special Education Division<\/strong> Alison Quinlan 631-549-4920 x280<\/p>\n<p><strong>JEA Elementary<\/strong> Kim Alvarado 631-254-0094<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lincoln Elementary<\/strong> Staci Governa 631-254-7820<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chestnut Hill Elementary<\/strong> Theresa Popofsky 631-242-5560<\/p>\n<p><strong>JEA Jr\/Sr High School<\/strong> Karen Walsh\u00a0 631-549-5580<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brennan Middle\/High<\/strong> <strong>School-Aspire Academy<\/strong> Anthony Letterel 631-491-4149<\/p>\n<p><strong>JEA Alternative &amp; ALC Program<\/strong> Thomas Logatto 631-586-1300<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manor Plains HS<\/strong>\u00a0Robert Caravello 631-754-2900<\/p>\n<p><strong>Itinerant Program<\/strong> Maryann Sullivan 631-595-6914<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson Tech Huntington<\/strong> Jennifer Paterson 631-754-2900<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson Tech Dix Hills<\/strong> Karen Bowden 631-667-6000 x383<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson Tech Northport<\/strong> Stephanie Engelmann 631-261-3600 x200<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson Tech Republic<\/strong> Diana Santiago 631-752-1957<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hugh Gigante, Western Suffolk BOCES Compliance Officer, 631-549-4900 The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) was established by New York State to protect all students from harassment, bullying and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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