Welcome to FRIENDS RESILIENCE
FRIENDS Resilience offers effective evidence-based curricula that build resilience and social-emotional skills for all age groups worldwide.
Curricula for All Ages
Comprehensive resilience skills for every stage of life
Fun Friends
3-7 year olds
Through play-based activities, young children learn confidence, coping, and resilience skills to support a smooth start to school.
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Friends For Life
8-9 year olds
Helps children understand feelings, make friends, and build the confidence to handle life's challenges.
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My Friends Youth
10-15 year olds
Supports teenagers to manage stress, normalise anxiety, and face new experiences with resilience.
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Adult Resilience
16+ year olds
Evidence-based strategies for coping, wellbeing, and lifelong resilience.
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Trusted worldwide for over 30 years
FRIENDS Resilience is acknowledged by the World Health Organisation for preventing anxiety and depression. Our evidence-based curricula support all ages with practical, engaging, and developmentally appropriate activities. We offer Train the Trainer pathways and cultural adaptations to ensure global accessibility. With the release of the 10th edition, FRIENDS builds lifelong confidence, social-emotional skills, and resilience.
Start Building Family Resilience
We have developed a new 'Start Building Family Resilience' program. It offers a preventative strategy to help people cope with the loss of loved ones and illness in the family. It helps to provide people with positive coping skills.
Learn moreAll About FRIENDS
The FRIENDS programs are designed to build life-long resilience in individuals, families and communities. Here is a video from those whose lives have flourished as a result of undertaking the program.
How can FRIENDS help you?
One in five children and adolescents have an anxiety disorder. A child or adolescent experiencing an anxiety disorder may experience inhibited personal development, academic underachievement, social isolation or depression. The FRIENDS programs were developed to empower those undertaking the program with the skills necessary to not only manage and prevent anxiety, but become engaged and thriving individuals.
In addition to being acknowledged by the World Health Organisation, the FRIENDS Programs are proven to be effective in promoting social and emotional skills cross-culturally. The skill sets acquired through FRIENDS programs are intended for long term use. With occasional refreshers these skills can be maintained for many years following the completion of the program.
Dr Paula Barrett
“ From what is wrong, to what is strong ”
FRIENDS Resilience was founded by Dr Paula barrett, a clinician, researcher, and professor in child psychology. She is recognized among the top one percent of publishers in Psychology and Psychiatry globally. Dr Barrett is the creator of the FRIENDS Programs, which use cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to build resilience in families, schools, and communities.
