The Resilience Project is a program that delivers emotionally engaging programs to communities, schools, clubs and businesses.

The program focuses on strategies to build mental and emotional resilience and happiness, and covers various topics within that scope including gratitude and other tools.

It has previously been rolled out in Stawell during 2018 and St Arnaud before that.

Central Grampians Local Learning and Employment Network launched the event at its Laby Street premises in Ararat to a mix of community and business representatives.

Central Grampians LLEN chief officer Jess Paterson said the organisation will focus heavily on delivering the program to young people.

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"I'm going to focus on the youth to ensure they have the mechanisms to cope so we can really help them to proceed into the best pathways possible for them," she said.

Schools that have already signed on to support the program are Ararat College, Ararat 800 Primary School, Ararat West, Ararat North, Moyston, Pomonal, Willaura, Maroona, Elmhurst, and Buangor primary schools.

Ararat 800 Primary School principal Ryan Oliver will welcome the program into the school's 2020 curriculum, and said it will be used as a springboard to continue developing mental health skills in students.

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"The students participate in a student session ... and the high schools are doing it as well so we're all going to be receiving the same message what resilience is, some of the strategies in building it, so it's going to be a fairly big occasion and we're going to use that momentum to continue to deliver lessons," he said.

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