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: Mailing address: Phone number: Email: 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. Access CANCHID archives at: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/canchid.html plus CANCHID subscription management. CANCHID is a joint service of the Canadian Society for International Health < http:www.csih.org > and the Distributed Knowledge Project at York University. Queries to: [log in to unmask]