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"I use the Peer Resources skills when I really need them, through the rough and good times... It showed me a part of me I never knew."

Peer Educator and Support Group Leader

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Become a Peer Leader at your school.

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Each year Peer Resources trains over 1,000 young people to serve as resources to over 15,000 students. Peer Resources programs currently exist in over 20 high schools and middle schools in San Francisco. If you attend a public school in San Francisco and are in grades 6-12 you can apply to become a peer leader. To find out if Peer Resources training is available at your school, contact us at peerresources@sfedfund.org.

 

 

There are various ways to get involved with the Peer Resource Program:

  • 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.