Peer Education
After one year of participation in SPP and eight weeks of summer training, young mothers can become Subsequent Pregnancy Peer Educators.
SPP Peer Educators...
- Reach hundreds of other adolescents each year with information about "why" and "how" to delay pregnancy
- Serve as role models to their peers
- Communicate directly to adolescents via presentations to middle school, high school, church, and other community groups
- Work one-on-one with their partners, siblings, and friends, talking about how hard it is to be a teenage mother
SPP Peer Educators have "given back" to their own communities by...
- Working with fifth grade teachers to redesign curriculum for family life education
- Appearing on local cable television and radio programs to share the delay message
- Starting a "Slightly Used" children's clothing store at the health department
- Shaking a can in front of Walmart to raise money for a Crisis Fund
- Painting and redecorating a Women's Shelter
- Raising money for Book Bags for elementary school children
- Graduating, attending college, and coming back to work as SPP Home Visitor
