Friends For Life Youth Programme
(13-18 years - school years 9-13)
The world’s leading resilience and life skills programme.
| FRIENDS for Life Youth helps teenagers cope with feelings of fear, worry, and depression by building resilience and self-esteem and teaching cognitive, behavioural, and emotional skills in a simple, well-structured format. Developed in Australia and used in schools throughout the world, FRIENDS for Life Youth has now been adapted for New Zealand's culture and curriculum and is the only such programme acknowledged by the World Health Organisation for its fifteen years of comprehensive evaluation and practice. A wealth of research and practical experience in thousands of classrooms has shown that exposing anxious youth to a complete 10-session FRIENDS programme can reduce their risk of developing a disorder for up to six years (research data is only available up to six years currently – we hope the skills learned will stay with them for life). Children with normal levels of worry benefit by acquiring resilience to emotional stress. |  |
FRIENDS for Life Youth promotes important personal development concepts such as self-esteem, problem-solving, self-expression, and building positive relationships with peers and adults.
