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This is a comprehensive resource pack... It also offers practical ways to save time by including Fast Forward s own training activities, policies, guidelines and procedures, developed over the years, for adaptation and use. --Community Care
Aimed at anyone seeking to employ peer education for young people, peer research, peer support, peer counseling or peer mentoring... focuses on the practical steps involved in starting, developing, completing and reviewing peer education initiatives, using numerous case studies, exercises and suggested activities to explore the subject. Key issues such as recruitment, selection, training, support, evaluation and accreditation or recognition are covered. --Care & Health
Based on Fast Forward s wide experience of delivering peer education over the past 16 years... current thinking, theory and rationales are pulled together to give a convincing justification for this model of informal education. This information is easy to read and accessible enough to prove useful when pitching for funding or when trying to attract partner agencies...well laid out and easy to understand. --Young People Now
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Well regarded, well established and often successful in securing funding, peer education has blossomed and flourished throughout the UK over the last decade. So why another book? Because many of those involved practitioners, participants, evaluators, funders - still have many questions about a range of peer ed issues that are simultaneously complex and basic, such as when to use it, how best to manage it, whether it really worked for them, and even what it is. While many other publications offer enough guidance to get you started, or report on what has been done in specific situations, this is a truly comprehensive resource pack. It: maps out what exactly peer education means, introduces new ideas and helps you to generate others. It takes you through all the steps involved in starting, developing, completing and reviewing a peer education initiative, providing you with definitions, case studies, numerous activities for use with young people and examples of effective practice. It offers practical ways to reduce the workload by inclusion of Fast Forward s own training activities, policies, guidelines and procedures, developed over the years, and available here for you to adapt and implement. Tried and tested, they have already helped many projects to develop quickly and painlessly the appropriate systems needed for effective peer education work. This new manual is for anyone who wants to use peer education but has not yet started, as well as for others who have already started and want to do better.
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