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Just Like You

Variety The Children's Charity (NSW/ACT)

The Just Like You program is a free disability awareness program catering to school students in fun and interactive workshops to teach that people with a disability really are JUST LIKE YOU!

  • Online
  • ACT
  • NSW

Pricing: Free

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Product type: Student activities; Activity sheets; Incursion, excursion or immersive experience; Class lesson plans

Contact details

Variety The Children's Charity (NSW/ACT)
ABN: 38 033 354 934

https://www.justlikeyou.org.au

support@justlikeyou.org.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • English

  • Humanities and Social Science

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Communities: Neurodiversity or disability

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

Educating students from Years 1 to 8 to develop understanding, acceptance and inclusion of people with a disability, learning that people with a disability really are JUST LIKE YOU!

The program addresses both visible and hidden disabilities, ensuring that students grasp the full spectrum of diversity and embrace inclusivity.

Interactive workshops are delivered in class or online by trained facilitators. The registeration page provides additional information about requirements.

Each stage-based workshop is designed to be delivered to class size groups and are curriculum aligned and free to all schools.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor

Evidence

The Just Like You program has been delivered across metro and rural NSW, and piloted in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Since 2015, we have reached over 150,000 students. The impact of the program is supported by positive changes in students' attitudes and behaviours reported by teachers.