Peer Resources programs provide academic and emotional support during a time of increased stress within schools and cutbacks to educational programs. They also provide a way for students to contribute to their own communities, encourage diversity of opinions, and feel that they have a voice.
Our Programs
- Peer Education helps students to develop classroom and/or school assembly presentations focusing on issues and problems facing today's youth. Go>
- Conflict Mediation provides a forum for students to negotiate non-violent resolutions to disputes without the intervention of an adult. Go>
- Peer Mentoring trains students to act as one-on-one mentors and help other students develop decision-making skills, establish and keep personal goals, and stay in school. Go>
- Peer Tutoring provides assistance in specific academic subjects. Tutors are trained in teaching skills and are matched with individual students for one-on-one sessions. Go>
- Strategies of Successful Students (SOSS) trains young people to educate their peers in innovative academic and quantum learning strategies leading to improved study skills. Go>
- Peer Support Groups are theme- or topic-based discussions that are co-facilitated by trained students and an adult coordinator. Go>
- Peer-Led Research is a peer helper initiative designed to assess and address student and school needs by gathering and evaluating research tools such as surveys and focus groups. Go>
- Special Projects include school fairs, conferences, murals, multicultural clubs, and school and community change projects. Go>
In addition to core programs, an estimated 8,500 youth participate each year in recreation activities, advising sessions, and one-time projects such as assemblies.