Creating a kinder world
by empowering kids
with friendship skills
URSTRONG’s whole-school friendship strategy has improved the social climate in schools around the world, connecting over a million kids, parents, and teachers with a common language of friendship.
Become a URSTRONG School
Join our global community of schools for exclusive access to our Friendology curriculum + hundreds of resources & workshops.
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Attend Teacher Training
Build the friendship capacity of your staff with our in-depth professional development opportunities.
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Host a URSTRONG workshop
Invite a "Friendship Expert" to your school to conduct impactful workshops with your students, parents and teachers.
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How does URSTRONG work?
URSTRONG is all about empowering kids with friendship skills! We’ve developed a proven, skills-based strategy that teaches kid-friendly concepts, skills and language to help them build and maintain healthy friendships.
- Research shows whole-school approaches are the most effective. Our URSTRONG Schools create a common language of friendship among kids, teachers, and parents.
- Kids love to recite the 4 Friendship Facts which helps them understand what to expect in their friendships.
- The Friend-o-Meter is a great tool to understand how kids feel about their friendships and what they can do to improve them.
- The Friend-o-Cycle helps kids understand how they can put out Friendship Fires and make their friendships closer and stronger.
- URSTRONG encourages kids to stand up for themselves in a kind, respectful way. Identifying if a conflict is a Friendship Fire vs Mean on Purpose is key!
What educators are sharing with us
We love what we do and we love hearing the heart-warming stories from parents and teachers about the impact URSTRONG is having on the special kids in their lives!
This is one of the best, most impactful practical applications of wellbeing science in schools that we have seen.
David Bott, Associate Director
Institute of Positive Education
URSTRONG has not only empowered our students with the life skills to foster healthy relationships, it has also empowered our teachers and parents.
Daniel Sandral, Head of Junior School
MLC School, Sydney
Students really need a program to teach friendship skills and URSTRONG is the resource we have been looking for.
Charlene Best, Teacher
St Brigid’s Catholic School, Wynyard
URSTRONG has enriched and complimented our school values with great language, practices and perspective.
Adrian Torrese, Assistant Principal
Our Lady of the Cape Primary School
URSTRONG is an incredible resource – practical and meaningful for children, teachers and our families.
Martin Conway, Director of Students
Barker College, Sydney
Chaplaincy is made easy with Friendology!!
Deema Percival, School Chaplain
Baulkham Hills Primary School
We love the URSTRONG language at Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak. Thank you for developing such a wonderful social and emotional program!!
Donna Davies, Head of Wellbeing
Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak, Melbourne
URSTRONG has taught so many Australian children about friendship & respectful relationships and helped many Aussie kids navigate the social world!
Dr Fiona Martin, Educational & Developmental Psychologist
Psychological Solutions (Australia), Former Member of Parliament
We are very proud to be a URSTRONG School! It’s so evident the positive impact the program has had on our school community & I receive far fewer calls about perceived bullying!
Kate Brown, Head of Junior School
Pymble Ladies’ College, Sydney
