Cobaw Community Health joins The Best of Friends® and BaseCamp®

We are excited to welcome Cobaw Community HealthThe Best of Friends® and BaseCamp® program in Woodend, Victoria.& ;

The Best of Friends® and BaseCamp® are multi-award winning Social and Emotional Learning programs developed by The Quirky Kid Clinic, and are now used by over 18 schools and agencies around.

About Cobaw Community Health

Cobaw Community Health Services Ltd was established in 1986 and is a not-for-profit with the mission of providing excellent accessible services to enable people in Victoria to live healthy, active lives. Cobaw provides a comprehensive range of free and low-cost services to over 5,000 people each year in early childhood, youth, families, adults, aged and disability.

Cobaw Community Health has embraced community health and wellbeing issues, proved to have been a driving force locally for service innovation and demonstrated a clear commitment to Social and Emotional Learning. We were impressed with their passion and commitment and are looking forward to working with their team to deliver their first programs to eight children during Term 3.& ;

How The Best of Friends® program will be implemented at Cobaw Community Health Services Ltd

The first 10-week group of The Best of Friends® program, along with the first 8-week group for the BaseCamp® & ;program will take place in Term 3 2020 and will be closely supported by our team of facilitators. Each participant receives a copy of the exclusive workbook developed by Quirky Kid, while facilitators and parents have access to an extensive range of information, manuals and regular supervision as required.& ;

To ensure adequate evaluation, each individual child and group complete pre- and post- psychometric testing of their social and emotional skills to measure the outcome of the intervention. Evaluation and monitoring is an important component of The Best of Friends® and BaseCamp® programs.

We look forward to working closely with Cobaw Community Health Services Ltd!& ;

Interested in offering The Best of Friends® and BaseCamp® programs at your school, clinic or community group?

Cobaw Community Health is one of 18 other schools/clinics offering our programs around Australia. Our Social and Emotional programs are a cost-effective and evidence-based intervention that improves children’s social and emotional wellbeing.& ;

The programs have a comprehensive implementation, evaluation and monitoring plan, and we are keen to identify partners equally committed to Social and Emotional Learning.

We continue to work incredibly hard to produce innovative programs and resources that are tried, tested and loved in classrooms, clinics and lounge rooms around the globe.Contact us or visit the program website to find out more about The Best of Friends® program, and here to find out more about BaseCamp® to see how it can help you meet the needs of your students or clients.