The
peer education program (42KB PDF) mobilizes
and equips youth to teach other youth about the benefits
of abstinence. In addition to helping other teens, peer
educators gain a thorough understanding of sexual health
issues, confidence to stand up for their choice to be abstinent
among their peers, and skills that help them to sustain this
choice through their daily decisions.
The peer education program
begins with a summer of abstinence training based on content
from the Healthy Futures classroom program, as well as
the basics of improvisational theater and performance preparation.
From that foundation peer educators create dramatic presentations
to be performed for other teens through community youth
programs. After performances, peer educators hold informal
question and answer sessions with the audience, during which
they share reasons why they have personally chosen to be
abstinent.
During the academic year, the peer education
program presents to teens at evening youth events or functions.
Peer educators combine short dramatic sketches about important
sexual health and relationship issues with direct instruction
to encourage other teens to make healthy relationship choices.
If
you are interested in scheduling the peer education program
to present at your school, community event, or place of
worship, or if you know of a teen who would be interested
in applying to become a peer educator, please call Healthy
Futures at 617-929-1037 or email contact@healthy-futures.org. |
