Establishing a Peer Education Program

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Establishing a Peer Education Program
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What is peer education?

• Peer education is a teaching or co-teaching
  relationship between people who are in some way
  equals

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Some different types of peer education programs

• Formal education programs
• Outreach programs
• Workshops
• On-demand or by-request peer education
• Situation-specific peer education

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Advantages of a peer education program

• Low resource costs
• The potential of a high degree of contact
• Growth for both educator and learner

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Useful circumstances for a peer education program

• Where other programs are not possible
• Where peers are more likely to be listened
• Where you need to reach a large number of people
  in the community in a relatively short time.
• Where you are starting a process that is meant to
  be self-maintaining
• Where the "peer" is the most important part of
  the program

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Planning and setting up a peer education program
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Planning the program

• Deal with
• General rules
• Initial questions
• Program structure

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Setting up a program

• Deal with
• Recruitment of peer educators and learners
• Peer educator orientation and training
• Peer educator supervision and support
• Personnel policies for peer educators and
  learners
• Program evaluation and refinement