Meet the volunteers who use the most unusual method to keep your child safe at night.

Vodka cruisers… hickies… and TWERKING.

That’s schoolies folks.

I went last year. I would know.

If you’re an Aussie parent, your child will go to schoolies one day. You mightn’t like it. But it’s the reality. 

A wholesomely irresponsible demographic moves out of home for an entire week, with the sole purpose of getting #drunk. Mind-boggling alcohol consumption is not only accepted - but encouraged - for seven days... what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

(Everything. The answer is everything.)

Parents out there - both future and present - this nervous week might be right around the corner. Or it might be decades down the track.

But either way? It’s coming. And when it does you won't even be there there to monitor it.

Enter Red Frogs.

Red Frogs are the group of volunteers whose job it is not only to PREVENT your child from making bad decisions…BUT TO HOLD THEIR HAND IF AND WHEN THEY DO. Without passing judgment.

What do they actually do? Well...

By the time Boss Frog was 27, he'd been working with a young group of skaters for five years. He'd seen them transform from hoodlums into responsible members of society. But he feared, "five days [at schoolies] with drugs and violence could undo all that".

"The boys gave us a ring from the Gold Coast and said... 'Come down for a visit'." So that's what Andy did.

"I was walking around... watching stuff comin' off buildings... a bottle hit my car... a full tin of VB smashed a metre away from me."

When he tried to visit the boys in their high-rise apartment, he was stopped by a security guard: "He wouldn't let me in without a building pass and ID." Building managers employ this tactic during schoolies in a (measly) effort to prevent huge parties.

"I've been working with these young guys for years," Andy told the building manager. "I know what they're doing to your building. Do you want a hand?" She had four-hundred drunk, drugged-up 17 year olds in her building. And two security guards to wrangle them. "She was getting owned."

"I volunteer at my local church. I can bring some of my church mates down to help," he told her. She asked him to get them to the Gold Coast as soon as possible. And she let him up into the building.

"We'd just go floor-to-floor finding dudes passed out in stairwells and take 'em back to their units."

But he says by far the hardest part - harder than earning the trust of the security guards - was earning the trust of the kids.

And they don't just do it during schoolies. They're at events and gatherings across Australia - everything from cricket games University open days - 365 days a year.

Yes they're strangers. But they're strangers going out of their way to help your child... your niece... your friend. Going out of their way to make sure the young people in your life make it home safely... that they live to tell the tales of the night before.

You can contact Red Frogs via email on info@redfrogs.com, or via phone on 1300 557 123. You can access their website here.