School
Based Curriculum
(45 minute sessions) |
After School Lessons
(90 minute sessions) |
Community
Based Curriculum
(60 minute sessions) |
Level 1
•Media Influences
•Teen Pregnancy & Parenthood
•Assertiveness Techniques
Level 2
•Friendship & Peer Pressure
•Sexually Transmitted Diseases
•Linking Drugs & Sex
Level 3
•What Love Really Is
•Healthy Relationships
Level 4
•Smart Love |
PEERS Club is for students in grades fifth through eighth and are held monthly after-school and sponsored by school districts that partner with PEERS. The character-based lessons have been developed for peer mentors to deliver to groups of early adolescents.
•Friendship
•The Power of Kindness
•Self-Image
•Goal-Setting
•Peer Pressure
•Decision Making & •Consequences
•Avoid Sex & Drugs
•Leadership |
The PEERS Project's Community-based PEP program has eight one-hour sessions for adolescents 12 to 18 years of age. Peer mentors present these sessions to teenage groups of students in summer programs and youth organizations such as the YMCA.
PEERS Adult Coordinators also present at group home settings and to pregnant girls about secondary virginity, STD's & HIV/AIDS, and making healthy decisions.
These topics include:
•HIV/AIDS
•STD's
•How at Risk Are You?
•What Love Really Is
•Second Virginity
•Is It Worth It?
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