There are many prevention strategies that can be implemented by the community, family, school, and youth. Peer Empowerment training was designed to help young people develop the skills to prevent some of the problems of adolescence, and to take the initiative to be leaders and improve their school and community.

Who should attend

• Student advisors
• Middle or high school students

Participants will be able to

• understand the concept of a healthy empowered peer and the risk factors that interfere with peer empowerment
• understand comprehensive prevention
• explore and define the role of youth in comprehensive prevention 
• possess basic skills in communication, decision making, assertiveness, and caring confrontation
• draft a personal and team action plan to increase youth ownership of prevention in their school/family/community

Length of training

• 2 1/2 days

Contact us

If you have any questions about any of our implementation training programs please email us, or call 800-328-9000, ext. 4672.  

Agenda

Day One
1:00 Registration, room check-in
1:30 Welcome and introductions
2:00 Energizer: Do you know your neighbor?
2:15 Poster activity: Introductions
2:45 Break
3:00 Profile an empowered peer
3:15 Swiss cheese theory: Why teens act the way they do
3:30 What is prevention? (assessing school/community needs)
5:00 Dinner
6:00 Fitness time/Relaxation
7:30 What are risky behaviors?
8:00 Risky behaviors, short attention span theatre, presentations and awards
9:45 Housekeeping reminders
10:00 Ice cream social

Day Two
  8:00 Breakfast
  8:30 Check in and review
  8:45 Your groups as a team; team building
  9:00 Energizers: people to people
  9:15 Decision making
  9:30 Effective communication
10:00 Break
10:15 Refusal skills and practice
10:45 Carefrontation skills and practice
11:25 Lunch
12:25 Conflict resolution skills
12:50 Goal-setting activity (dream doodling)
 1:15 AODA continuum
 1:30 Recovering teen panel
 2:30 Break
 3:00 Self care/Relaxation
 3:30 Walk and talk
 5:00 Dinner
 7:30 Special objects
 9:30 Movie/Snacks/Socializing

Day Three
  7:30 Breakfast and packing
  8:15 Empowerment pictionary
  9:15 Options for peer helping
  9:30 Marketing and implementing peer helping
  9:45 Break
10:00 Action planning: What will you do for your school?
11:25 Lunch
12:15 Sharing action plans
  1:30 Closing

Contracted trainings for Peer Empowerment are available.