Friendly Schools is the first Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Anti-bullying Initiative for schools developed through extensive research with Australian children and adolescents. ...

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This chapter describes a whole-school cyberbullying intervention developed and evaluated in Western Australia with secondary school students aged 13–18 years old ...

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• 2018
• January 2018

What began as a small formative research project 20 years ago has grown into a universal bullying prevention and social skills development program which has helped countless Australian children and their families. ...

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• 2019
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Bullying varies in frequency, intensity, duration and hence severity, and contributes uniquely and directly to mental health problems, with severe and long-lasting consequences. Almost a half of school-age students report being bullied in the past year. ...

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• 2021
• December 2021

Strong evidence supports our current understandings of student bullying behaviours and ways schools can prevent and respond effectively to bullying behaviour. In the late 1990’s, however, little was understood about the most effective ways to reduce bullying in Australian schools. In response to schools’ need for evidence-informed action, a pipeline of research called Friendly Schools was initiated in 1999 which for the past twenty years, has provided robust whole-school evidence-based knowledge and skills to support policy makers, school staff and other practitioners working in schools and families across Australia. ...

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• 2021
• September 2021

Cyber Friendly Schools program was associated with significantly greater declines in the odds of involvement in cyber-victimization and perpetration ...

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• 2016
• March 2016

This study demonstrates the importance of considering the effectiveness of secondary school bullying prevention interventions and real-world implementation support ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

These findings demonstrate the immediate value of whole-school interventions to reduce bullying behaviour and associated harms among students ...

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• 2018
• December 2018

The aim of this study was to estimate the changes to costs and health benefits of implementing the "Friendly Schools Friendly Families" (FSFF) anti-bullying intervention in Australia. ...

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• 2021
• August 2021

Erin Erceg EE BA (Education) Project Manager, Friendly Schools Erin.erceg@telethonkids.org.au Erin is the Manager of the Friendly Schools Project for ...

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