An Asset Builder's Guide to Training Peer Helpers: 15 Sessions on Communication, Assertiveness, & Decision-Making Skills

by Barbara Varenhorst (2003, Search Institute, 39.95)
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When young people struggle with problems, to whom do they turn for help? Most often, it's their friends. In this guide you will find 15 sessions an adult leader can use to train students in the skills necessary to more effectively help their peers. Through discussion and fun, engaging activities, students will learn the basic but crucial skills necessary for building healthy relationships, such as: communication, assertiveness, confidentially, decision making, and conflict mediation. [8.5” x 11”...158 pages]

Caring and Sharing: Becoming a Peer Facilitator, Second Edition

by Robert Myrick & Tom Erney (2000, Educational Media, 10.95)
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Designed as a handbook for each student undergoing peer facilitator training, this classic book contains 11 chapters of structured training including 38 activities to personalize the concepts presented. Grades 9-12. (The leader's guide for this book is Youth Helping Youth.) [5.5” x 8.5”...256 pages]

Youth Helping Youth: A Handbook for Training Peer Facilitators

by Robert Myrick & Tom Erney (1985, Educational Media, 18.95)
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Supplementary activities, forms and assessment devices, and suggestions on how to use the companion student book, Caring and Sharing (10.95), are all presented to aid in the operation of a well-planned peer facilitator program. Grades 9-12. [5.5” x 8.5”...216 pages]

Friends Helping Friends: A Handbook for Helpers

by Carol Painter (2003, Educational Media, 10.95)
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This is a comprehensive manual of field-tested training materials and activities for peer counselors. It covers the philosophy of helping, skills needed, and topics such as suicide prevention and intervention, alcoholism, children of alcoholics, grief, rape, families, divorce, stepfamilies, and dreams. Grades 9-12. [5.5” x 8.5”...224 pages]

Leading a Friends Helping Friends Peer Program

by Carol Painter (2003, Educational Media, 9.95/spiral)
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An extensive and practical guide for the adult leader in developing and maintaining a peer counseling program. Together with the companion book, Friends Helping Friends (10.95), this guide provides over 50 hours of lesson plans and training activities. Grades 9-12. [5.5” x 8.5”...116 pages]

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