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Real Friendships

Emerging Youth

Real Friendships focuses on the development of skills and strategies that support students in building healthy friendships, growing social awareness and strengthening resilience.

  • Online

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Product type: Program

Contact details

Emerging Youth
ABN: 39 339 210 774

https://www.emergingyouth.com.au/real-friendships-class

hello@emergingyouth.com.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

  • E-safety and digital literacy

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Technologies

Prospective users

Audience: Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2)

Context: School or centre-based

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

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained

Aims & approach

Real Friendships aims to enhance social wellbeing by empowering students with practical skills and strategies that promote the development of healthy friendships, enabling them to more effectively relate to their friends and peers.

Over eight 45-minute sessions students cover the following topics: healthy friendships, communication styles and skills, responding to and resolving conflict, relating to friends and peers online, navigating friendship changes, belonging, connection and support networks.

The programs are fun, highly interactive and utilise collaborative learning techniques.

Program facilitators (educators or wellbeing leaders) must complete a 4-hour training session prior to delivery, either face-to-face or through our eLearning platform.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support

Evidence

Real Friendships has been developed based on the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning's (CASEL) framework for social/emotional learning and addresses all five of the competencies specified: self-awareness, self-management, responsible-decision making, relationship skills, and social awareness.

Additionally, Real Friendships draws on a strength-based approach, a social work practise theory that emphasises the self-determination and strength of the individual.

The effectiveness of the program is supported by positive findings reported by students and facilitators in an internal evaluation.