- Tier: Tier 1: Positive mental health promotion
- Category of intervention: Bullying prevention
- Strength of evidence: Level 3: Foundational and emerging evidence for program
- Geographic location: Statewide
Program description
PROJECT ROCKIT in schools offers a number of in-person workshops for students in Grade 3 to Year 10. Students build strategies to challenge bullying (both online and offline), develop leadership skills and improve their digital wellbeing.
PROJECT ROCKIT also helps students spot the benefits of diversity and improves belonging. Workshops involve strengths-based activities, experiments and group discussions.
Secondary schools can also access online student learning as well as teacher, parent and carer resources.
Intended outcomes
- Increased readiness to challenge bullying
- Improved social connections and supports at school
- Increased knowledge of help-seeking behaviour and channels
- Increase in socially inclusive behaviours
- Improved capacity to positively influence communities
- Improved resilience
Program details
| Target audience |
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|---|---|
| Program provider | PROJECT ROCKIT |
| Delivery mode | Face-to-face. *Complemented by a digital platform for ongoing learning and teacher/parent development. |
Implementation considerations
- Target population: Students in years 3 to 10.
- Program adaptability: The program is built on a fixed curriculum but the school engagement team will work with teachers to support each school's specific context. The program is adaptable for diverse cohorts including LGBTIQA+ students, asylum seeker and refugee students, culturally and linguistically diverse students, and neurodivergent students.
- Staffing: The program is delivered by highly-trained young facilitators, meaning schools are not required to backfill for teaching staff during program implementation. Supervising teachers must always be present in the room to assist facilitators with behaviour management and to step in if disciplinary action is required.
- Training requirements: There are no training requirements from schools prior to program implementation.
- Factors to consider: Schools will require an audio-visual set-up. The minimum number of participants is 25. A whole-school platform (currently available only to Secondary schools) is accessible online as a source of ongoing support for students, teachers and parents/carers.
- Australian context: This program has been developed and applied in Australia.
Cost
Item cost
Under $1,000
Detailed cost
PROJECT ROCKIT in schools is a customisable program. Schools may purchase from the following:
- a 60-minute workshop for up to 250 students, ranging from $715 – $2,178 including GST ($715 for 60 students + $7.70 per additional student up to 250 maximum)
- a 90-minute workshop for up to 250 students, ranging from $990 – $2,975.50 including GST ($990 for 60 students + $10.45 per additional student up to 250 maximum)
- a full day workshop program for up to 300 students, ranging from $2,750 – $5,918 including GST ($2,750 for 60 students + $13.20 per additional student up to 300 maximum)
- an online resource platform, costing $2,750 (including GST). This may be discountable to $2,200 (including GST).
The total program price is an average spend of $4,180 (including GST). Please note that travel costs are additional, based on distance from the PROJECT ROCKIT office.
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