Friend2Friend: Bullying Prevention

The goal of Friend2Friend: Bullying Prevention is to build learners' abilities to establish and maintain relationships with diverse individuals and to demonstrate responsible upstander behaviors in school, personal, and community environments. 

Learning objectives:

• Develop social awareness and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships
• Use communication skills to elicit the perspectives of others
• Engage in strategies for maintaining constructive relationships including pursuing shared interests and activities, spending time together, giving and receiving help, and practicing forgiveness and apologies
• Appreciate diversity and build relationships with diverse individuals or groups
• Demonstrate responsible upstander behaviors in school, personal, and community environments
• Choose appropriate strategies for responding to bullying while staying safe
• Explain how to use upstander strategies using the 3 D's: Direct, Distract, Delegate
• Identify positive support people to seek out in a conflict or crisis 

Evidence-based models and techniques, game mechanics, and key learning and assessment principles ensure users stay engaged and emerge with a deeper understanding of their ability to use their new skills in real life. Research shows that with experiential practice, increased emotional engagement and reflective thinking leads to stronger self-efficacy and behavior change.

Education and psychology professionals have contributed to the simulation content.

Learners receive customized feedback based on their in-simulation choices.

The simulation is available online 24/7. Users are asked to complete pre-, post-, and 3-month follow up surveys to assess changes in skills, attitudes, and behavior. Upon completion, users receive a certificate of completion. Clients have access to usage reports and evaluation data via the Kognito client portal.