Peer Education Programs

Recognizing the importance of social relations to adolescent behavior, social network analysis is an increasingly used analytical technique to describe youth's personal network, interpersonal relationships, and group norms. By better understanding these networks and the environment, researchers and project planners will more effectively plan and implement health promotion and social change interventions using the natural communication process within the area can do.

School-based prevention programs: School-based prevention programs usually use classroom programs by age, but can also be implemented as special school programs, media literacy training, and peer education programs. These programs can provide information to participants on the risk of secondhand smoke, enhance participants' ability to identify and resist the impact of colleagues and tobacco distributors, and teach rejection skills. School based smoking cessation programs: School based smoking cessation programs focus on helping students quit smoking and use tobacco products. In these courses you can teach students to refuse skills and avoidance skills, provide social support to colleagues and counselors, and associate participants with community resources.

The peer education program is very effective in communicating information on health promotion and harm reduction to specific people such as young people, drug users, cultural organizations. Local people are trained and supported to use a safer way to use drugs or to educate colleagues to mitigate the adverse effects of drug use. In general, people are pleased to receive hazard mitigation education from their colleagues, and there is a high possibility of accepting such advice on board. The peer education program is also particularly effective for providing harm reduction information to people who are not usually participating in mainstream health services or social welfare services.

Andrea Elzy, a coordinator of the University Advisory Service (UCS) Peer Education Program, said the course is focused on practical problems affecting student friends and their families. Courses on campus include JADE (Disordered Joint Advocate), Bruce Project, Depression and Suicide Awareness Program, and Today's Project Discovery Alternative (DATE).