Tag: just say know

Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, Peer Education Intern What are the necessary components to a good peer education program? What are some important skills to have when delivering a peer education program? What are some difficult questions that may come up when delivering a peer education program? How do you plan to navigate those questions? Before the Peer Education

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Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, Peer Education Intern What are some questions you can ask to identify why people want to talk to you? What are some helpful things to say in response? How would you refer someone to a resource? When presenting a Just Say Know module, Peer Educators are likely to have audience members asking questions and

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Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, Peer Education Intern Think through each of the phases of the Cycle of Change: Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, Relapse. For each of these phases, how can you meet someone where they’re at and guide them through the cycle? On the path to recovery and a healthier lifestyle, one must always remember that change

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Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, Peer Education Intern How would you explain the concept of harm reduction to someone who has never heard about it before? Review Principles of Harm Reduction. What is the most important principle to you and why? How will you apply harm reduction in your peer education work? Ex. When you’re facilitating small group presentations,

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Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, Peer Education Intern How has our society come to stigmatize drug use and drug users? How and why does stigma prevent people from seeking help? Stigma is the belief that a certain attribute makes an individual unacceptable, despite the presence of other positive qualities. It is a driving force behind continued drug prohibition. Our

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Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, Peer Education Intern What are some ways you can identify if someone is exhibiting signs of addiction or problematic drug use? What is the difference between drug use and problematic drug use? What are some of the ways in which our current understanding of problematic drug use and substance use disorders help the recovery

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Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, Peer Education Intern As history and research can show us, prohibitive drug laws have always operated as a method of social control. Every approach by the government and its corresponding entities have been motivated by the morality of drug use; effectiveness is measured by the number of arrests and seizures rather than health and

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As SSDPers embark on their mission as Peer Educators, studying previous drug education practices can benefit the success of this unprecedented program. Since its fruition during the Temperance movement, drug education has been driven by political and moral agendas. Drug use was taught to be morally wrong, irreversibly harmful, and an indication of personal weakness. The goal of every program

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Written by Guest Blogger Karen Walker, SSDP Peer Education Intern As the Peer Education Program launches this fall, SSDPers will have the opportunity to facilitate open and honest conversation about drug policy while educating their peers on safe and responsible drug use. In order to successfully implement this program and shift attitudes on campus, students must first have a genuine understanding

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