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Youth Engagement Through Schools: Peer/Helper Programs

Explanations,   Evidence,   Planning/Best Practices Guides,   Assessment /Evaluation Tools,   Online Training/Training Programs,   Programs/Materials,   Examples

Explanations (Summaries, Articles, Fact Sheets)

Peer Helping Standards (Peer Resources)
Peer-Tutoring: Toward a New Model. ERIC Digest (ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education)
What Are Peer Programs? (California Association of Peer Programs)
Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory)
Peer Helping (Manitoba Education and Youth)
Someone to Talk to: Peer Helping in High School (Manitoba Library Association)
Why Are Peer Important? (National Peer Helpers Association)
Positive Peer Pressure: A Transition Perspective (Child & Family Canada)
School-Based Mentorship (University of Alberta)
Peers as Sources of Problems (Canadian Youth Foundation)

Evidence

Annotated Bibliography (Peer Resources)
The Peer Helping Annotated and Indexed Bibliography (Peer Resources)
What Are Peer Programs? (California Association of Peer Programs)
Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory)
Presentation for the 2nd International Drugs and Young People Conference (Bleeker A)
Youth for Youth: Piecing Together the Peer Education Jigsaw (Joanne McDonald, Jill Grove, Youth Advisory Forum Members)
Peer Helper Program for out of the Mainstream Youth (Health Canada)
Peer Support and Student Leadership Programs (University of Alberta)
Models for Mentorship Programs in Schools K-12 (University of Alberta)
The Adolescent Girls' Mentorship Study (Centre for Youth & Society)
Studies of School-based Mentorship Programs (University of Alberta)

Planning/Best Practices Guides

Volunteer Mentorship Programs K-12 (Alberta Teachers Association)
Peer Support Leadership Programs (Alberta Teachers Association)
National Peer Trainer Certification (Peer Resources)
National Peer Trainer Certification (Peer Resources)
Program Checklist (National Peer Helpers Association)
Leadership is Helping Others (CASAA)
National Peer Helpers Association
National Peer Helpers Association Programmatic Standards (National Peer Helpers Association)


Assessment /Evaluation Tools

Online Training/Training Programs

Tutoring Strategies for Successful Learning (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory)
The Peer Power Centre
Video Presentations (University of Alberta)

Programs/Materials

Peer Resources Bookstore (Peer Resources)
Top Peer Publications (Peer Resources)
National Peer Helpers Association

Examples

Kids Help Phone - Student Ambassadors
Tutoring Strategies for Successful Learning (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory)
The Network Program for Schools and Youth (Schools and Youth)

 

Key Resources

	Peer Helping Standards (Peer Resources)
	Volunteer Mentorship Programs K-12 (Alberta Teachers Association)
	National Peer Trainer Certification (Peer Resources)
	Annotated Bibliography (Peer Resources)
	Program Checklist (National Peer Helpers Association)
	Leadership is Helping Others (CASAA)
	Kids Help Phone - Student Ambassadors
	What Are Peer Programs? (California Association of Peer Programs)
	Peer Resources Bookstore (Peer Resources)
	Top Peer Publications (Peer Resources)
	Peer Support Leadership Programs (Alberta Teachers Association)

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