Create a culture of kindness at your school with a whole-school friendship strategy that empowers your students with friendship skills.
Become an expert in our award-winning friendship skills curriculum + learn the science and research behind social-emotional wellbeing.
Bring a Friendship Expert to your school to introduce our language & strategies to students, parents, and teachers.
Explore monthly wellbeing themes through the lens of friendship with our daily planner, customised for your school.
Prioritise friendship skills all year long with our Friendology workbook for students, packed full of activities.
There’s lots of exciting things happening at URSTRONG! We love sharing our key milestones as we work towards our goal of bringing friendship skills to children from all corners of the world.
Time and time again, the little people in our lives say and do the wrong thing. That’s because they’re still learning and they’re human. Just like us adults, they make…
Let’s start with this: You love your child. That love you feel for your child is raw and visceral – that kick-in-the-stomach kind of love. And, because of that, nothing hurts…
Published October 2018 in the Sydney Morning Herald Written by Kasey Edwards “Be friends with everyone”. I don’t know how many times I’ve given my two daughters this advice. And…
Teaching Children to Respect their own Boundaries + Learn How to Use an Exit Strategy You can learn so much about a child by watching how they behave at…
“Resilience” has become a common word heard around schools and seems to be a big focus for both educators and parents. While we understand the importance of helping our children…
Healthy, connected relationships create healthy, connected communities! The Maroondah Positive Education Network in partnership with the Eastland Shopping Centre and the Maroondah City Council are bringing URSTRONG’s Friendology program to…
Friendology 101 will expand to 8 sessions per stage We’ve got a whole new website on the way with exciting new updates for our URSTRONG Schools! The new Friendology 101…
URSTRONG is pleased to announce that Be You, a national initiative in Australia focused on Mental Health in Education, has accepted our Friendology 101 curriculum into their Be You Program’s…
We are pleased to announce that our Founder, Dana Kerford, has been featured in SnapChat’s Global Friendship Report for a second year in a row. As one of 17 experts…
Wellbeing Through the Lens of Friendship After years and years of requests, URSTRONG is pleased to announce the launch of The Friendship Journal. This annual planner for schools is designed…
We are delighted to announce that our CEO, Michael Kerford, was invited to be a Member of the UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development)…
31 classes, 4,000+ children, 25 countries On May 15, 2020 we ran our final public URSTRONG Classroom session. For two months, we ran (drum roll, please!) 31 URSTRONG Classroom lessons…
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