"Worth It" (Mini-Course)
Social Skills & Social Confidence 8-Session - Course For Ages 8-17yo (with age-appropriate mini-groups)
Social Skills, Life Skills, Healthy Friendships & More
"Worth It" - Social Skills & Social Confidence
Social Skills in an online community - from your home
Course for ages 8-17
Age-appropriate mini-groups: 8-10, 11-13, 14-15, 16-17 years
For kids/teens who have done 'Secret Agent Society', or 'Peers For Teens'
If your young person has completed either 'Secret Agent Society', or 'Peers For Teens', this is for you. This fun course builds on the skills that your daughter developed in our other courses.
'Worth It' - Mini-course
- Making friends is 'Worth It'.
- Being brave is 'Worth It'.
- Expressing our preferences/opinions is 'Worth It'.
- You are 'Worth It'.
Sessions
All sessions run after school on weekdays
Student sessions
8 Sessions
Each is 90 minutes of fun, interactive sessions for your daughter.
Parent Sessions
2 Sessions
Each is 2-hours of supportive training for parents
What Your Child Will Discover
Age-appropriate mini-groups: 8-10, 11-13, 14-15, 16-17 years
Session 1: What is Self-Worth
- Why we need to work on our self confidence
- Building self-worth takes time
- What am I good at?
- Who do I look up to?
- Being myself
Session 2: Friendships
- How I contribute to my friendships
- What a good friendship looks like
- Realistic expectations of our friends
Session 3: We all have great potential to achieve our goals!
- We all have something in us called potential
- Goals setting - smart goals
- Growth Mindsets versus Fixed Mindsets
- Grounding Techniques for when things don't go as we planned
Session 4: Social Safety – In Person & Online
- I choose to be safe (what I allow and don’t allow)
- I know how to be safe online
- Who can I trust and talk to?
Session 5: What does it mean to be Healthy?
- How I maintain a healthy body and mindset
- Personal hygiene – presenting myself well to others
- My feelings go up and down and that’s okay
Session 6: Social & Personal Resilience
- What is Resilience?
- Growth mindset
- Bouncing back
Session 7: Resolving Conflict
- What is Conflict?
- Friendship is a Choice.
- The difference between conflict and bullying
- Resolving Conflict
- Empathy and Self-Reflection
Session 8: Finding Joy
- What is Joy?
- How do we find joy?
- How joy affects our relationships
- The big 3 for growing joy
Here's an Explanation of Every Skill We Work on:
We Help Your Child Achieve Their NDIS Goals
We set goals depending on your child's abilities, and for community members who are on NDIS. We set goals that match NDIS objectives and unique personality.
NDIS Funding Categories
Chat with your plan manager for what is relevant to your situation.
It is helpful to know that other families have told us they usually use these categories (or similar):
- Increased Social & Community Participation
- Improved Daily Living
For plan-managed participants, your plan manager will be able to tell you whether your plan will cover this.
NDIS-Happy Pricing: $1550
Structured to be approved for NDIS self-managed or NDIS plan-managed families generally claim through NDIS.
You can chat with your plan manager or support co-ordinator, to make claiming NDIS easier.
Families not on NDIS can also participate, funding themselves
Includes absolutely everything:
- All program sessions for your young person (8x sessions)
- All parent training sessions (2x sessions)
- All other support, communication etc - everything.
Advantages to Joining "Worth It"
No Waiting Lists!
You hate waiting lists and so do we!
We have many
mini- groups and we would rather add more groups than have a waiting list.
We'll do everything we can so your child can start in our next course.
So Easy - On Zoom - From Home
Participate from home, on Zoom.
At each session your daughter is part of a close-knit mini-group of students working together, with our leaders helping and guiding team-work negotiations.
Each week we have a different social skill that we work through together.
For Kids/Teens Aged 8-15 (In mini-groups)
We have different session times, depending on your child's age group and interests. We've deliberately designed these sessions so that your child can experience friendship, regardless of their age or ability.
Experienced Autism-Friendly Leaders
That's because your child will work with two of our staff members who will make sure that everyone is using friendly voices and supporting each other.
Helping Autistic Young People Learn New Skills
We use a range of Autism-friendly strategies to make it straight-forward for Autistic people to develop their social skills, conversational skills and teamwork skills. Here’s how we help young people grow their skills in an Autism-friendly way:
- Make routines, rules and social norms clear and specific so that learners don’t have to guess what is expected.
- Break each new social skill down into steps, demonstrate the steps and then create a safe space for learners to practise using those steps.
- Create ways for learners to use their new skills within the group or at home with a parent/supporter.
- Explain the reasons why these steps work and why the social skill is worth learning and using.
- Point out the small wins along the way - every step that is helpful is a win.
- Using encouragement, humour and sense of team spirit to make learning fun and to build peripheral social skills at the same time.
Peace-Of-Mind Promise: What if my child needs to pull out?
Your child can:
- Stop doing their course if they need to.
- Switch to a different course if you need to.
- Do ‘catch-up’ sessions for missed sessions.
You won't be billed for an entire course if your child needs to pull out.
Almost every time, our kids/teens find their groove and enjoy their sessions.
If your child needs tweaks, we can switch your child to a different mini-group, modify session times, or even pair them with a different leader.
We understand that sometimes life seriously happens… A death in the family, sudden health issues, parents going through a hard time etc etc.
But rest assured, if it doesn't work out (and it will), you're only billed for the part of the course that your family participated in.New Paragraph
NDIS Reports Provided
Parents often ask, “Can I please have a report for our NDIS plan review?”
Rest assured, the answer is a resounding "Yes!"
We'll arrange that for you.
No hidden fees - All reporting like this is already built into the standard program fee, so you will not be given an extra fee beyond the usual cost of the program.
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Peers® Social Skills (Teens/Young Adults)
12-17 yr
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Minecraft Teamwork Group
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Art Friendship Group
7-17 yr
Kids and teens create fun art activities together, with our leaders helping and guiding your child through social skills to make new friends. It’s relaxed, supportive and very social. Each week we have a different art project that we work on together as a team (e.g. a drawing, painting, graphic design etc).
Friendship Hero (Boys) Playground Skills
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Your young man builds on skills he’s learnt from SAS & Peers (Evidence-based social skills courses), targeted for the daily challenges that growing boys face. Your child learns to be more confident, contribute more to interactions with others and how to keep friends. It’s a fun experience, with a focus on playground-style social skills.
“Worth It” (Girls) Friendship Skills
8-15 yr
Your daughter will love learning new social skills, building on the skills she gained in SAS & Peers (Evidence-based social skills courses). In a fun, safe space your daughter learns how to navigate healthy relationships and develop social resilience. She can learn to ‘read the room’, evaluating social settings to drop her social ‘mask’ and shine as herself.
Adventure Team - Role Playing Game
11-25 yr
Social Role Playing - A fun interactive Zoom board-game-like Social Skills learning experience on Zoom. Each session, we learn new social skills and then we apply those social skills as a Pirate, a Space Pilot or a Farmer.
Parent Encouragement Groups
Parents only
Parents who love hanging out and exchanging ideas - What’s working in your family right now, and what is tricky? Let’s learn together. Parent support, ideas & encouragement night are so much fun.