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URSTRONG Schools

URSTRONG Pty Ltd

URSTRONG is designed to empower students with friendship skills while providing teachers and parents with a common language to support them.

  • Online
  • ACT
  • NSW
  • NT
  • QLD
  • SA
  • Tas
  • Vic
  • WA

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed elsewhere and adapted for Australian schools, Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Catholic Education WA partner; Approved elsewhere: Be You, SA, VIC

Product type: Program; Posters; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Activity sheets; Student activities; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Whole school approach or initiative; Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool; Incursion, excursion or immersive experience; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

URSTRONG Pty Ltd
ABN: 63 610 191 225

https://urstrong.com/membership/

info@urstrong.com

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

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

Context: School or centre-based

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

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

URSTRONG School membership provides a whole-school license that guides schools in the development of a comprehensive relationship skills strategy for their school community.

Steps:

  1. BECOME A URSTRONG SCHOOL: This gives every teacher at your school access to Friendology, hundreds of resources, student handbooks, assessments, videos, quizzes, webinars, and more
  2. BEGIN FRIENDOLOGY EDUCATOR TRAINING: With a series of training videos, your whole staff will become 'Friendship Experts'
  3. BOOK URSTRONG WORKSHOPS: Either in-person or online, the parent-child and student workshops are engaging, interactive and a great way to learn the lingo

URSTRONG works closely with schools to ensure they receive the support they need to optimise positive student outcomes. Annual membership cost is based on school size.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
  • Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice

Evidence

The impact of the program is evidenced by a summative evaluation that found positive outcomes in participants' knowledge and understanding of what it means to have healthy friendships, their acquisition of the skills to be able to manage conflict in relationships, and their ability to stand up to bullying. It is further supported by positive testimonials from educators and school leaders from URSTRONG schools.