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The External Wellbeing Programs Directory is a curated list of evidence-informed mental health and wellbeing programs offered by external providers, including department-funded or endorsed programs.
If you’re a wellbeing program provider and want to be included in the directory, registrations of interest will open again in term 4.
School access
Schools can access a searchable External Wellbeing Programs Directory on the staff intranet (login required). The directory includes more detail about each program and how they align to the wellbeing domains of the department’s Wellbeing Engagement Collection (WEC).
The directory includes free and paid for programs. Schools are responsible for negotiating the cost and then contracting the provider for the agreed scope of work.
Types of wellbeing programs included in the directory
Programs in the directory:
- are delivered to students through teacher training and support or by the external provider
- target primary or secondary school children and young people
- include a packaged sequence of lessons – not a one-off guest speaker or an app
- have a focus on at least 1 WEC domain
- are a tier 1 universal or tier 2 targeted program .
Programs address the following mental health and wellbeing areas:
- social and emotional learning skills
- bullying prevention
- general wellbeing
- mental health wellbeing and literacy
- health promotion.
External providers can deliver the programs to students or train teachers and wellbeing staff to deliver the programs.
Not included in the directory
The directory does not include once off guest speakers, wellbeing apps or therapeutic interventions for an individual child, also known as tier 3 interventions.
Who can use the directory
The directory is for primary and secondary public schools.
Register your interest to supply
The initial registration of interest has closed.
Eligible providers can submit a registration of interest on the SA Tenders portal in term 4 (October) each year. Register with SA Tenders and Contracts to receive email notifications of tenders that may be of interest.
After you apply
Once you register your interest, an expert panel will assess your application and let you know the outcome. The panel will assess registrations using the same criteria applied to the original providers.
Submitting a registration of interest does not guarantee your program will be included in the directory.
Being included in the directory won’t guarantee schools choose the program. Schools will make local decisions on what programs to use. The directory informs and guides schools in their selection of external programs.
The department has the right to add programs to the directory when appropriate.
Providers in the directory
Program name | Provider | Overview |
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All-School Visible Wellbeing Program | Visible Wellbeing | The All-School Visible Wellbeing program is a universal intervention bringing together the science of wellbeing, learning and cultural change through pedagogy and goal setting. |
batyr@school | batyr Australia | 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. |
Best of Friends | Quirky Kid Pty Ltd | 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. |
Bullying. No Way! | Australian Education Authorities | 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. |
Butterfly Body Bright | Butterfly Foundation | Butterfly Body Bright is a primary school body image program. The 6 themes support students to be:
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Cyber Safety Project Primary School Partnership program | Cyber Safety Project | The Cyber Safety Project is on a mission to support children to self-manage their own cyber security, safety and wellbeing through proactive education. |
Cyber Safety Project Secondary School Partnership program | Cyber Safety Project | 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. |
Day of Friendship | URSTRONG Pty Ltd | 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. |
Empower Education: Alcohol and Other Drug Education | Encounter Youth | Encounter Youth hosts the Empower Education: Alcohol and Other Drug education for secondary students at different stages of their schooling and development. |
Friendly Schools | Telethon Kids Institute | Friendly Schools is a whole-school social and emotional wellbeing and bullying prevention initiative for primary and secondary schools. |
Friendology 101 | URSTRONG Pty Ltd | URSTRONG Friendology 101 creates a climate within friendships focused on trust, respect, and honesty. |
FRIENDS for Life | Friends Resilience Pty Ltd | 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. |
Fun FRIENDS | Friends Resilience Pty Ltd | Fun FRIENDS is a play-based program for building resilience in children. |
Growing with Gratitude | Growing with Gratitude | 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. |
HeadStrong | Black dog institute | 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. |
Healthy Minds | Healthy Minds Education and Training | Healthy Minds teaches students psychological skills designed to prevent and reduce risk for depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, while also building wellbeing and resilience. |
Journey of Hope | 54 Reasons / Save the Children Australia | Journey of Hope is a school based psychosocial support program for children aged 4 to 18 who have had their safety, stability and learning undermined by a disaster or collective trauma. Through group work, children explore and normalise emotions and identify and develop positive coping strategies to deal with current and future challenges. |
Junior RISE | Whitelion Youth | Junior RISE targets students at-risk of disengagement in Years 5 and 6 (Junior RISE Primary) and Years 7 and 8 (Junior RISE High). |
Life Ed and Healthy Harold | Life Ed, SA | 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. |
Love Bites | UnitingCare Wesley Bowden | Love Bites is a program providing young people with a safe environment to examine, discuss and explore respectful relationships. |
Multicultural Power Cup | Port Adelaide Football Club | Multicultural Power Cup Program immerses culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students in football training to build social cohesion, promote inclusion and celebrate cultural diversity. |
My FRIENDS Youth | Friends Resilience Pty Ltd | My FRIENDS Youth focuses on teaching students integrity and positivity in the face of peer pressure. |
Online safety resources | eSafety Commissioner | Online safety resources and training for teachers, schools and communities to build awareness in students about cyberbullying, device safety, privacy and online shopping. |
Open Parachute | Enso Education Pty Ltd | 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. |
Our Futures | The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use | 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. |
P.E.A.C.E. Pack | Australian Psychological Services | 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. |
Peer Support | Peer Support Australia | The Peer Support program helps students develop and sustain positive relationships, agency, sense of self, and responsibility for self and others. |
Personal Leadership Program | Youth Opportunities | 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. |
Positive Living Skills | Positive Living Skills | 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. |
Power Community Youth Program | Port Adelaide Football Club | 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. |
Primary School Partnership program | Cyber Safety Project | The Cyber Safety Project is on a mission to support children to self-manage their own cyber security, safety and wellbeing through proactive education. |
Raise | Raise Foundation | 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. |
Resilient IMPACT | Life Buoyancy Institute | Resilient IMPACT helps schools build a wellbeing- and learning-responsive education community. |
Resourceful Adolescent Program | Queensland University of Technology | 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. |
Rock and Water | Connected Self | 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. |
Seasons for Growth | MacKillop Family Services | 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. |
Seasons for Growth | UnitingCare Wesley Bowden | 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. |
Secret Agent Society | Social Science Translated | 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. |
SHINE SA Relationships and Sexual Health Education | SHINE SA | 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. |
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program | Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation | 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. |
Stormbirds | MacKillop Family Services | 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. |
Teen Mental Health First Aid | Mental Health First Aid Australia | Teen MHFA is a practical, skills-based courses 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 completed the Youth Mental Health First Aid course before they can offer Teen Mental Health First Aid. |
The Karma Classroom | The Karma Class | 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. |
The Resilience Project | The Resilience Project | The Resilience Project provides evidence-based positive mental health programs to build resilience and happiness. |
Westmead Feelings Program | ACER | 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. |
WorryWoos Developing Emotional Intelligence | Wonderful Me Pty Ltd | The WorryWoos Developing Emotional Intelligence Program employs fun, fictional characters and stories to support the development of emotional intelligence. |