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Posts Tagged ‘peer education’

Military Secrets

Posted By: Hillary Box

“It’s not the event, it’s how you cope that matters.” The US military is putting serious money behind resilience, which is a key plank of any prevention programme. For the past four years, they’ve tested a resilience  programme with more than ...

Gary Tank Commander Talks Peer Ed

Posted By: Hillary Box

Mentor Scotland’s patron Greg McHugh, aka Gary: Tank Commander, took time out of filming a new series for Channel 4 to host an open session with young people about becoming peer educators. Mentor Project Development Officer Gez Lawson explains, “I want to ...

Bottle It – School Winner CHAMP Award

Posted By: admin

We were delighted to be able to visit Chelleston School in Derby to present the CHAMP Award to the winner of our schools’ category for the Bottle It project (here's a write up of the project on the HubCAPP website). The ...

Gordonstoun Visit

Posted By: Gez Lawson

Two peer educators delivered a full days alcohol awareness training to twenty pupils aged 15-17 at Gordonstoun School, Moray. The pupils are interested in developing their own peer education project, aimed at young people throughout the Moray area as well as providing a ...

Peer Education Alcohol Project

Posted By: admin

Our peer education project is working with a group of 11 young people in Scotland. They have developed and delivered a alcohol curriculum to over 300 young people at risk of alcohol problems. We are now going on to talk to professionals ...