Peer Education, Youth Development, and Youth-Adult Partnerships
That young people gain more from an experience when they are actively involved is a core premise of peer education and youth development. Research also suggests that programs for youth which are developed through a partnership of youth and adults may be highly effective in building young people's skills and reducing their sexual risk-taking behaviors.
Direct youth involvement offers potential benefits
to the young people—both those who help to develop
the program and those served by the program—and
also to the organizations. To name but a few benefits—youth gain experience
and confidence; organizations gain a fresh perspective on youth culture; and
organizations develop more effective outreach. The essence of youth involvement
is a partnership between adults and young people. Effective youth-adult
partnerships work toward solving community problems. Working partnerships also
acknowledge the contributions of all participants—youth and adults.
Click below for more information:
Advocates' Publications
on Peer Education, Youth Development, and Youth-Adult Partnerships:
- Affirming the Rights of Young People at United Nations World Summits and Conferences: A Guide for Youth Advocates (The Facts) [html] [pdf]
- en español—Afirmando los Derechos de los Jóvenes en las Cumbres y Conferencias Mundiales de las Naciones Unidas: Una Guía para Jóvenes Abogadores [html] [pdf]
- Communities Responding to the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Volume V: Linking Pregnancy Prevention to Youth Development [pdf]
- Community Participation: Partnering with Youth (Transitions) [html] [pdf]
- Components of Promising Peer Led Sexual Health Programs (Issues at a Glance) [html]
- Cyber Cafés, A How-to Manual: Including Designing a Web Site and Implementing an Online Peer Education Program [html] [pdf]
- en español—Los Cibercafés, Un Manual de Procedimientos: Incluye cómo diseñar un sitio Web e implementar un Programa en Línea de Educadores Pares [html] [pdf]
- em português—Cyber Cafés, Um Manual de Instruções: Inclui Informações Sobre a Criação de um Website e Implementação de um Programa On-line de Conselhería Par [html] [pdf]
- Guide
to Implementing TAP (Teens for AIDS Prevention):
A Peer Education Program to Prevent HIV and STI [pdf
of the full document - 198 pp.]
- Introduction.
How to Use This Guide [pdf]
- Chapter
I. The Need for HIV/STI Prevention
Peer Education [pdf]
- Chapter
II. Building Support for a Peer
Education Program [pdf]
- Chapter
III. Planning the Program and
Finding Funding [pdf]
- Chapter
IV. Selecting and Training Staff
and Recruiting TAP Members [pdf]
- Chapter
V. Training Youth to Be Peer
Educators [pdf]
- Chapter
VI. Youth Developing Activities
to Educate Their Peers [pdf]
- Chapter
VII. Evaluating the Peer Education
Program [pdf]
- Chapter
VIII. Taking the Message to the
Media [pdf]
- Appendix.
Resources & Useful Forms
[pdf]
- Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program [download the full document or by chapter]
- Life Skills Approaches to Improving Youth's Sexual and Reproductive Health (Issues at a Glance) [html] [pdf]
- Peer Education: Promoting Healthy Behaviors (The Facts) [html] [pdf]
- Peer to Peer: Youth Preventing HIV Infection Together [pdf]
- Rights. Respect. Responsibility.®: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships (Transitions) [html] [pdf]
- Youth Development: Strengthening Prevention Strategies (Issues at a Glance) [html] [pdf]
- Youth Involvement in Prevention Programming (Issues at a Glance) [html] [pdf]
- en español—Involucramiento de los jóvenes en la programación de la prevención [html]
- en français—Participation des jeunes aux programmes de prévention [html] [pdf]
- A Youth Leader's Guide to Building Cultural Competence [html] [pdf]
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