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The External Wellbeing Programs Directory is a curated list of evidence-informed wellbeing programs offered by external providers to students in government schools.
Programs in the directory have been assessed by the department for their positive impact on student wellbeing.
Adding a program
If you offer an evidence-informed wellbeing program suitable for primary or secondary school students and it meets the criteria outlined below, you are welcome to apply for inclusion in the directory.
Information about the procurement process in 2026 will be provided when available. To be notified when applications open, please email education.wellbeing@sa.gov.au.
Benefits of the directory
By having your program listed in the directory, providers can increase their visibility in government schools. Providers can expect:
- promotion of the directory through the department’s internal communication channels
- gaining credibility and trust with schools as a quality, evidence-informed program
- recognition as supporting student wellbeing improvements.
How programs are added
Programs are added through a registration of interest process on the SA Tenders and Contracts website.
When the process is open, it will include a registration of interest form and guiding documents to help you demonstrate:
- evidence that your program improves student wellbeing
- how the program is delivered
- how you support effective implementation in schools.
Applications submitted during a procurement process are assessed against criteria by a panel comprised by the department.
Program requirements
To be considered for inclusion in the directory, a program must:
- be delivered to students, through teacher training to deliver program content or directly by the provider
- target primary or secondary students
- include a packaged sequence of lessons
- focus on at least one Wellbeing and Engagement Collection domain
- be a tier 1 universal or tier 2 targeted program
- be available to be delivered in South Australia.
Programs not eligible
The directory does not include:
- once off guest speakers
- staff professional development
- wellbeing apps to collect and report student wellbeing data
- clusters of opt-in lessons or modules
- tier 3 or therapeutic interventions for individual students.
Providing evidence of positive impact
Evidence showing that your program improves student wellbeing is essential for directory assessment and selection. Before applying, providers should collect data that demonstrates positive outcomes. Examples of evidence include:
Increases in:
- student attendance or engagement
- emotional regulation or self-regulation
- resilience and social connection
- help-seeking behaviour
- self-esteem and confidence (e.g., in managing bullying)
- use of respectful language or conflict resolution skills
- motivation to participate in physical activity
Decreases in:
- challenging behaviours
- bullying incidents
- student stress
There are many ways to demonstrate a program’s impact; no single evaluation method is required.
The hierarchy below outlines different types of evidence, ranging from formal research to practical, everyday observations.
- Strong: Systematic review or meta analysis.
- High: Studies that include a comparison or control group. While randomised controlled trials are considered the gold standard, they are not required.
- Moderate: Reports or studies with pre- and post-program survey data. These are highly valuable and achievable for many providers.
- Low: Published reports with evidence of underlying practice or case studies.
- Weak: Testimonials or anecdotal participant experience.
Engaging a university or commissioning large-scale external evaluations is not required. Many programs show meaningful impact using straightforward methods, such as pre- and post-program surveys tracking changes in knowledge, attitudes, motivation or behaviour. The assessment panel will consider both the quality of evidence provided and the extent of measurable improvement demonstrated.
Child safety requirements
Providers are required to submit proof of child safety documentation when they apply for the directory or when they are accepted into the directory. All staff who deliver programs to students must provide evidence of the following:
- South Australian Working with Children Check
- Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care (RRHAN-EC) Masterclass certification
- Child Safe Environments compliance statement issued within the past 5 years.
All staff will be required to present all these documents when visiting schools. These requirements apply to all program delivery modes, including in person or online, and regardless of whether the provider is based in South Australia or interstate.
Providers must ensure their staff’s child safety documents and training are kept up to date. Staff must comply with requirements to deliver programs in schools. If they are not compliant, they cannot deliver these programs. Providers must also notify the department whenever new staff are recruited to deliver programs in schools and provide evidence of their child safety documents.
How schools use the directory
Educators and school leaders are strongly encouraged to use the External Wellbeing Programs Directory [staff login required] when considering free and cost-based wellbeing and mental health programs for their schools.
The directory includes details about each program and the function to filter or search by:
- tier
- delivery approach
- school type
- focus area
- WEC domain
- cost.
Schools are responsible for negotiating the cost and will use a secondary procurement process to contract a provider for an agreed scope of work.
How schools use wellbeing programs not on the directory
Schools are encouraged to engage with programs on the directory. However can make local decisions about the wellbeing and mental health programs and supports that best align with student needs.
If you want to supply your program that is not listed on the directory, we ask schools to check that you can provide:
- evidence that your program positively impacts the wellbeing of students, including evaluations of past program success - testimonials alone are not sufficient to demonstrate a program’s effectiveness
- referees, so they can talk to other schools who have used the program about what was achieved by implementing the program
- training and resource materials that support the successful implementation of the program
- support for schools to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the program
- up to date child safety documents for all staff delivering the program to students, as outlined in the requirements above.
Schools and program providers can contact the Engagement and Wellbeing team to find out more.
Providers in the directory
Program name | Provider | Overview |
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Program name Alcohol and Other Drug Education | Provider Empower Education: Encounter Youth | Overview Through Empower Education, Encounter Youth offers evidence-based, curriculum-aligned Alcohol & Other Drug (AOD) education for secondary students at age-appropriate stages of their schooling and development. Taking a holistic approach to education, the program includes seminars for teachers and parents. Encounter Youth also offers workshop-based AOD programs for disadvantaged and disengaged students and an online AOD program for regional schools. |
Program name batyr@school | Provider batyr Australia | Overview batyr@school supports students to participate in positive conversations about mental health. Trained facilitators educate students on supports available to empower them to reach out for help when needed. The program includes hearing from a young person with an experience of mental ill-health, focusing on hope, resilience and courage. |
Program name Best of Friends | Provider Quirky Kid Pty Ltd | Overview The Best of Friends program is a concise and engaging social and emotional learning program from Quirky Kid. It optimises academic, social and emotional outcomes for children in year 3 to 6 in school settings. |
Program name Big Talks for Little People | Provider Associated Psychological Services | Overview Big talks for Little People: Child mental health program is a practical, digitally delivered classroom module that promotes mental health and wellbeing, resilience and coping. |
Program name Bullying. No Way! | Provider Australian Education Authorities | Overview Bullying. No Way! provides accurate, up to date, interesting and engaging educational materials and learning activities for all year levels to support school communities for a proactive approach to bullying education and prevention. |
Program name Butterfly Body Bright | Provider Butterfly Foundation | Overview Butterfly Body Bright is a primary school body image program. The 6 themes support students to be:
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Program name Coaching Young People for Success | Provider Life Business Consultancy | Overview Coaching Young People for Success incorporates personal, wellbeing and academic aspects of life and career planning. The aim is to strengthen students’ social and emotional skills to help with their career development and planning, emotional wellbeing, relationship management and academic outcomes. |
Program name Cyber Safety Project Primary School Partnership program | Provider Cyber Safety Project | Overview The Cyber Safety Project is on a mission to support children to self-manage their own cyber security, safety and wellbeing through proactive education. |
Program name Cyber Safety Project Secondary School Partnership program | Provider Cyber Safety Project | Overview The Cyber Safety Project is on a mission to support young people in year 7 and 8 to self-manage their own cyber security, safety and wellbeing through proactive education. |
Program name Day of Friendship | Provider URSTRONG Pty Ltd | Overview URSTRONG is a school-wide relationship strategy that can complement existing wellbeing programs or serve as the foundation for an emerging social-emotional wellbeing program at your school. |
Program name Friendly Schools | Provider Telethon Kids Institute | Overview Friendly Schools is a whole-school social and emotional wellbeing and bullying prevention initiative for primary and secondary schools. |
Program name Friendology 101 | Provider URSTRONG Pty Ltd | Overview URSTRONG Friendology 101 creates a climate within friendships focused on trust, respect, and honesty. |
Program name FRIENDS for Life | Provider Friends Resilience Pty Ltd | Overview A cognitive behavioural therapy program that increases resilience and happiness in children by teaching them and their families cognitive, emotional and behavioural skills for managing feelings and coping with life challenges with a positive and resilient attitude. |
Program name Fun FRIENDS | Provider Friends Resilience Pty Ltd | Overview Fun FRIENDS is a play-based program for building resilience in children. |
Program name Growing with Gratitude | Provider Growing with Gratitude | Overview Growing With Gratitude is a fun and engaging program that builds and protects children's mental health by teaching skills based on gratitude, kindness, empathy, mindfulness and serving others. |
Program name HeadStrong | Provider Black dog institute | Overview HeadStrong is an evidence-based free curriculum resource that can be used to help students better understand mental health while developing personal wellbeing and resilience. |
Program name Healthy Minds | Provider Healthy Minds Education and Training | Overview Healthy Minds was created by a psychologist to prevent the onset of symptoms of anxiety, depression, and eating disorders in young people. By teaching a core set of psychological skills, reducing specific broad risk factors, and building specific broad protective factors young people can be supported to foster robust mental health and resilience. There are components for the course available for students, teachers and parents. |
Program name Impact Violence Prevention Program | Provider Sammy D Foundation | Overview Impact is a primary prevention education program aimed at changing student’s attitudes towards violence by educating them about the negative impacts and giving them strategies to keep themselves and their mates safe from harm. |
Program name Junior RISE | Provider Kids First Australia | Overview Junior RISE targets students at-risk of disengagement in Years 5 and 6 (Junior RISE Primary) and Years 7 and 8 (Junior RISE High). |
Program name Life Ed and Healthy Harold | Provider Life Ed, SA | Overview Life Ed offers 12 modules on physical health, safety and social and emotional wellbeing for primary school students, while students in years 7 to 11 have access to 4 drug education modules on vaping, smoking, alcohol and illicit drugs. |
Program name Kids Helpline @ School | Provider yourtown | Overview Kids Helpline @ School is an early intervention and prevention program that uses video conferencing to improve the mental health literacy, resilience and help-seeking skills of primary school students. The program is facilitated by Kids Helpline counsellors. |
Program name Love Bites | Provider UnitingCare Wesley Bowden | Overview Love Bites is a program providing young people with a safe environment to examine, discuss and explore respectful relationships. |
Program name Media Smart | Provider Flinders University | Overview Media Smart is an 8-lesson program that improves body image and reduces the risk of eating disorders. Media Smart increases resilience in young people of all genders. It encourages young people to take an informed approach so they can identify, analyse and challenge both social and traditional media messages. It also reduces the importance young people place on appearance. |
Program name Multicultural Power Cup | Provider Port Adelaide Football Club | Overview Multicultural Power Cup Program immerses culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students in football training to build social cohesion, promote inclusion and celebrate cultural diversity. |
Program name My FRIENDS Youth | Provider Friends Resilience Pty Ltd | Overview My FRIENDS Youth focuses on teaching students integrity and positivity in the face of peer pressure. |
Program name Online safety resources | Provider eSafety Commissioner | Overview Online safety resources and training for teachers, schools and communities to build awareness in students about cyberbullying, device safety, privacy and online shopping. |
Program name Open Parachute | Provider Enso Education Pty Ltd | Overview Open Parachute provides students from R to 12 with mental health and wellbeing programs. All programs feature documentary videos of real Australian students sharing their stories. Students learn mental health skills from peers their own age, while educators deliver pre-prepared lessons that don't require them to be a mental health expert. |
Program name Our Futures | Provider The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use | Overview Our Futures is an eHealth program designed to prevent substance use, mental ill-health, and related harms among adolescents. The program provides information and realistic scenarios to allow young people to practise responding to situations related to substance use and mental health in an appropriate way. |
Program name Party Wise Program | Provider Sammy D Foundation | Overview This is an engaging and interactive alcohol and other drugs education program that takes a harm minimisation approach. It explores: types and categories of drugs, short and long-term effects of drugs, current trends and drinking culture, understanding standard drink measurements, driving under the influence, when and where to seek help. |
Program name P.E.A.C.E. Pack | Provider Australian Psychological Services | Overview The P.E.A.C.E. Pack is a framework and intervention program designed to address bullying and promote wellbeing in schools. It presents school-based strategies shown to reduce school bullying. |
Program name Peer Support | Provider Peer Support | Overview The Peer Support program helps students develop and sustain positive relationships, agency, sense of self, and responsibility for self and others. |
Program name Personal Leadership Program | Provider Youth Opportunities | Overview Youth Opportunities personal leadership programs use positive psychology and cognitive therapy to help young people build social emotional learning and resilience. Programs can be delivered in person or online, giving schools the flexibility to tailor to your students' needs. |
Program name Positive Living Skills | Provider Positive Living Skills | Overview The Positive Living Skills wellbeing program teaches mental health and wellbeing by combining evidence-based, curriculum-aligned learning experiences and resources for a primary school setting. |
Program name Power Community Youth Program | Provider Port Adelaide Football Club | Overview Port Adelaide Football Club players from the men’s and women’s teams deliver a series of fun interactive lessons on healthy eating and staying active. |
Program name Primary School Partnership program | Provider Cyber Safety Project | Overview The Cyber Safety Project is on a mission to support children to self-manage their own cyber security, safety and wellbeing through proactive education. |
Program name Raise | Provider Raise Foundation | Overview Raise is a group mentoring program helping to improve outcomes in mental health, social and emotional wellbeing and school engagement for young people at risk of disengagement from education or poor wellbeing. |
Program name Real Schools Cultural Partnership | Provider Real Schools | Overview By integrating Restorative Practices through a partnership with Real Schools, schools can foster a strong culture, build effective relationships, resolve conflict in healthy, consistent ways, improve student behaviour and reduce bullying incidences. |
Program name Resilient IMPACT | Provider Life Buoyancy Institute | Overview Resilient IMPACT helps schools build a wellbeing- and learning-responsive education community. |
Program name Resourceful Adolescent Program | Provider Queensland University of Technology | Overview The Resourceful Adolescent Program (RAP-A) is a strength focussed school-based program that aims to promote resilience and wellbeing in young people aged 11 to 15 years old. |
Program name Rock and Water | Provider Connected Self | Overview The Rock and Water program focuses students on body, emotional and self-awareness. The development of body awareness and the ability to control their physical state, comes before developing emotional awareness. Students develop self-awareness and the ability to link together their environment, emotions and thoughts. |
Program name Seasons for Growth | Provider MacKillop Family Services | Overview Seasons for Growth is a small group program that creates a safe space for children and young people to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to understand and respond to change, loss and grief experiences. These can be death, family separation, forced migration and other life changes. |
Program name Seasons for Growth | Provider UnitingCare Wesley Bowden | Overview The Seasons for Growth program teaches children skills and attitudes required to understand and respond well to grief and loss experiences such as death, separation and divorce. |
Program name Secret Agent Society | Provider Social Science Translated | Overview The Secret Agent Society (SAS) is a suite of espionage-themed resources that provide an evidence-based, comprehensive, structured social and emotional learning for children aged 8 to 12 years old. |
Program name SHINE SA Relationships and Sexual Health Education | Provider SHINE SA | Overview SHINE SA’s Relationships and Sexual Health Education Program supports schools across the state to deliver this topic in a confident, whole-school approach. It's a primary prevention initiative that aims to build relationships skills, health literacy, e-safety and achieve long-term health and social outcomes. |
Program name SibWorks | Provider Siblings Australia | Overview Sib Works is a peer support program for children aged 8 to 12, who have a brother or sister with a disability. The program is facilitated by professionals in the health, education disability or community services sectors. It's designed to support siblings to build their emotional wellbeing, resilience and connection with others who share similar experiences. |
Program name Smiling Mind Primary School Program | Provider Smiling Mind | Overview The Smiling Mind Primary School Program is an evidence-based whole-school approach to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children in the classroom, school and home environments. The cornerstone of the program is the plug-and-play, ready-to-implement Primary Classroom Curriculum, a comprehensive and stand-alone Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program. Through pre-planned lessons, children learn, practice, and integrate social and emotional skills. The learning content is mapped to the Australian Curriculum, and supports the development of fundamental skills that are proven to positively impact learning and mental wellbeing outcomes. |
Program name Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program | Provider Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation | Overview The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program (KGP) teaches children and young people to form positive habits for life, improving food literacy and behaviour, building life skills and resilience, and supporting mental health. |
Program name Stormbirds | Provider MacKillop Family Services | Overview Stormbirds is an education program that provides a safe space for children and young people to learn about how natural disasters such as bushfires, floods and storms can impact on their lives and learn knowledge and skills to respond to these events. |
Program name Stronger Brains in South Australia | Provider Stronger Brains Ltd | Overview Stronger Brains is an innovative program that engages children in a structured regimen of evidence-informed cognitive, social and emotional health exercises, tailored to strengthen the neurocognitive skills they need for learning and wellness. |
Program name Teen Mental Health First Aid | Provider Mental Health First Aid Australia | Overview Teen MHFA is a practical, skills-based course designed to equip students with the skills and confidence to recognise and respond if someone they know experiences a mental health problem or crisis situation. Schools need to have 10% of their staff complete the Youth Mental Health First Aid course before they can offer Teen Mental Health First Aid. |
Program name Teen Mental Health First Aid | Provider Natalie Bottroff and Associates Pty Ltd | Overview Teen MHFA is a practical, skills-based course designed to equip students with the skills and confidence to recognise and respond if someone they know experiences a mental health problem or crisis situation. Schools need to have 10% of their staff complete the Youth Mental Health First Aid course before they can offer Teen Mental Health First Aid. |
Program name The Karma Classroom | Provider The Karma Class | Overview The Karma Class offers a range of health and wellbeing programs based on yoga, breath and mindfulness, designed specifically for early childhood and primary students. |
Program name The Resilience Project – School Partnership Program | Provider The Resilience Project | Overview Designed by teachers for teachers the program provides evidence-based positive mental health strategies for staff, students and the whole school community to be happier and more resilient. The program includes inspiring presentations and a yearlong teaching and learning curriculum tailored to each year level from F-12. |
Program name True Colours | Provider Sammy D Foundation | Overview True Colours is an 8-week, student-led critical inquiry module, aimed at preventing bullying and violence. The key focus of the program is ‘when a decision is made to engage in or react to a situation, what are your True Colours at the critical moment?’ |
Program name Tumbelin BOOST | Provider Baptist Care | Overview Tumbelin BOOST is an adventure-based learning program that challenges and supports at-risk young people. Through ‘challenge by choice’ principles, students set goals and experience both personal and group success. With weekly activities over a term, Tumbelin BOOST takes a relational and restorative approach to student wellbeing. |
Program name Visible Wellbeing | Provider Visible Wellbeing | Overview The Visible Wellbeing program is a universal intervention bringing together the science of wellbeing, learning and cultural change through pedagogy and goal setting. |
Program name Westmead Feelings Program | Provider ACER | Overview The Westmead Feelings Program teaches social and emotional regulation skills to autistic children and young people, in close collaboration with parents and teachers. There are 2 versions of the program to cater for children’s different ability levels. |
Program name What’s the Story? | Provider Sammy D Foundation | Overview What’s the Story? is an 8-week violence prevention program aimed at young people identifying as male in years 9 to 12. The program is participatory, interactive and discussion based. Storytelling is a key feature as it supports students to reflect upon their world in a personally meaningful and relevant manner. It’s recommended for groups of 10 to 20 students. |
Program name Worry Woos Developing Emotional Intelligence Program | Provider Wonderful Me | Overview The WorryWoos Developing Emotional Intelligence program is a set of plush characters, stories and support material, including an adaptable curriculum guide. Each of the Seven WorryWoo characters represent an emotional or social challenge such as anxiety, frustration, loneliness, self-esteem and social confidence. The accompanying story books show their journey of facing and overcoming their emotional struggles. This class material is backed up by books for parents, providing an avenue for family engagement. |
