Looking to improve the quality of your youth peer education program?
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 participatory
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 resources for their peers. 

The manual is comprised of four main sections:
1.	From Theory to Practice in Peer Education reviews the definition
of peer education and its rationale and value in the context 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 appropriate training
exercises and notes. 
3.	A Sample Peer Education Session on HIV/AIDS presents an example
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 following 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.ht
m. For hard-back printed copies of the manual, please send a request
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 [log in to unmask] along with the following information:

Description of how you plan to use this resource:

Name and Title:

Organization:

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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 reduction behavior among
adolescents in Eastern Europe and Central Asia,  the Middle East, North
Africa, and East Africa. It is coordinated by the United Nations
Population Fund, with FHI/YouthNet, UNAIDS, and other partners.


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