[afro-nets] New Peer Education Resource: Training of Trainers Manual

[David Hock <DHock@fhi.org>]

New Peer Education Resource: Training of Trainers Manual
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Looking to improve the quality of your youth peer education pro-
gram? YouthNet proudly announces the first resource in the Youth
Peer Education Toolkit

The Training of Trainers Manual is a curriculum tool to prepare
master-level peer education trainers. The manual uses participa-
tory techniques based on a variety of theoretical frameworks to
ensure that future trainers are skilled and confident in their
abilities to train peer educators and serve as informed re-
sources for their peers.

The manual is comprised of four main sections:
1. From Theory to Practice in Peer Education reviews the defini-
tion of peer education and its rationale and value in the con-
text of different behavior change theories and models.

2. Guidelines for Training of Trainers: A Curriculum provides
the outline of a suggested six-day training of trainers (ToT).
For each of the training topics, the curriculum provides appro-
priate training exercises and notes.

3. A Sample Peer Education Session on HIV/AIDS presents an exam-
ple of a three- to four-hour peer education session on HIV/AIDS.

4. Participant Handouts includes 20 handouts that are used in
the six-day training.

This Training of Trainers Manual is part of an expanded Youth
Peer Education Toolkit sponsored by the Youth Peer Education
Network (Y-PEER) project. The toolkit also includes the follow-
ing publications:
* Standards for Peer Education Programs
* Theatre-Based Techniques for Youth Peer Education: A Training
   Manual
* Performance Improvement: A Tool for Youth Peer Education
   Projects and Managers
* Assessment Tool for Youth Peer Education Programs

The Standards and Theater-Based Techniques will be published and
announced in March, and the Performance Improvement Guide and
Assessment Tool are estimated to be published in June 2006.

To view the Training of Trainers Manual online, please follow
http://www.fhi.org/en/Youth/YouthNet/Publications/peeredtoolkit/index.htm

For hard-back printed copies of the manual, please send a re-
quest with an explanation of how you plan to use it in actual
peer education activities. Limited copies are available, and
will be mailed to those in the best position to apply it to
their programs. Please send all requests to
mailto:youthnetpubs@fhi.org along with the following informa-
tion:

Description of how you plan to use this resource:

Name and Title:

Organization:

Mailing address:

Phone number:

E-mail:

YouthNet is a five-year program funded by the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) to improve reproductive health
and prevent HIV among young people. The YouthNet team is led by
Family Health International (FHI) and includes CARE USA and RTI
International.

Y-PEER (Youth Peer Education Network) has worked since 2001 to
increase the capacity of local and national NGOs to implement
high-quality peer education programs promoting HIV risk reduc-
tion behavior among adolescents in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa. It is co-
ordinated by the United Nations Population Fund, with
FHI/YouthNet, UNAIDS, and other partners.

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David Hock
mailto:DHock@fhi.org