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POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNINGFRIENDS
4 December 2012
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Youth Mental Health Initiative
Research informed Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Project (2011)
• Intended to address mental health issues for young people.
• Offer a range of options to promote wellbeing across the youth population, to target and support those most vulnerable and treat any who need it.
• Some of these are being implemented through schools in the form of evidence based programmes
FRIENDSAcknowledged by the World Health Organisation as an effective anxiety
treatment and prevention programme.
- Supports the development of children and youth’s social and emotional skills.
- Provides them with coping strategies that enable them to work through problems thereby improving their capacity to learn.
Adapted for New Zealand’s culture and curriculum.
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Programmes
Child - 7 to 12 Yrs
Ages 4 to 7 Yrs
Youth - 12 to 16 Yrs
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Will be implemented in 2013
Trial
My FRIENDS Youth
• 10 secondary schools
• Year 9
• Health curriculum
• Schools in Hamilton, Central South and Invercargill, Christchurch and Maniototo.
Training
Ministry license with Pathways – Australia
Pathways hold sole right to train trainers
Trainers can train people to implement the programme
Two RTLB, two teachers and one Ministry person trained under
Ministry license
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Increase in pro-social skills providing students with strategies that have
been shown to improve;
•behaviour.
•social and emotional skills.
•attitude.
•academic performance.
The initiatives also support the learning of family/whānau and teachers,
influential in the youth’s life, to improve relationships and provide a
consistent across settings approach further increasing motivation to learn
and succeed.
Expected Outcomes
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