PEERS RESOURCES

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

National Peer Helpers Association
P.O. Box 335, Mountain View, CA 94042

Peer Resources

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

Peer counselors are found in high schools across the country. In New Jersey, 200 high school students formed REACH America. In Boston, Copley High School and Boston’s Cathedral High School students are peer leaders. A drug intervention program in Tennessee and Georgia known as Project 714 is responsible for declining drug and alcohol use both on and off campuses of area schools. Most schools involved in Project 714 have their own "Triple S"—Students Staying Straight—bulletin boards. These make it possible for students in and out of the club to monitor each other’s activities, creating positive peer pressure. (Source: The Christopher’s News Notes, 12 E. 48th Street, New York City, NY 10017).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Elkind, D. (1987, April). Peer influence. Parents Magazine, 62, p. 206.

Elkind, D. (1984). Peer shock. In D. Elkind, All grown up and no place to go. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Laufenberg, R. (1987, December). Positive peer culture: A peer group approach to behavior change. Journal of Correctional Education, 38(4), 138-143.

Rimm, S. (1988, May-June). Popularity ends at grade 12. Gifted Child Today, 11(3), 42-44.

Rosenberg, E. (1989, November). Kids, clothes and peer pressure. PTA Today, 15(2), 17-19.

Scott, S. Peer pressure reversal: How to say no and keep your friends.

Sebald, H. (1989, Winter). Adolescents’ peer orientation: Changes in the support system during the past three decades. Adolescence, 24, (96), 937-946.

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Votey, S. (1989, January). Helping teens to say "no": An assertiveness training program for sophomores. School Counselor, 36(3), 198-202.

National Peer Helpers Association provides lists of general curriculum references. These are a few:

Bowden, B. (1988). Peer counseling training manual. Birmingham, AL: Bradford Publishing.

Bowman, R.P. (1980). The peer facilitator movement: Its impact on our schools. Florida Personnel and Guidance Association Guidelines.

Cole, T. (1988). Kids helping kids. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia: Peer Counseling Project.

Emswiller, J. & Moore, J. (1982). Handbook for peer ministry. Mahway, NJ: Paulist Press.

Paul Paris cCYS