Interest Form - Peer Health Exchange's Social Emotional Learning & Mental Health Program

About Peer Health Exchange

Peer Health Exchange is a national nonprofit organization that empowers young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions by training college volunteers to teach a skills-based health curriculum focused on mental health, sexual health, and substance abuse to high school students.

About the program

Offered for free to secondary schools, Peer Health Exchange's Centered program seeks to increase the likelihood that 8-12 grade students will take care of, maintain, and seek resources for mental health. The asynchronous, 7-module student program integrates core health education skills, such as assertive communication, thoughtful decision-making, and advocacy. With assistance from Peer Health Exchange, school staff will learn how to successfully guide their 8-12 grade students through all or part of the program over the course of the spring.

Listed below are titles and brief descriptions of each of the program modules:

Centering You: Intro to Social-Emotional Learning -- Introduction to Peer Health Exchange’s 7-module social-emotional learning program
Owning Your Story: Agency and Mental Health -- Introduces students to the concept of identity and demonstrates how identity can influence agency and access to mental health resources
Checking-in with Yourself: Self-Awareness and Mental Health -- Students practice self-awareness and recognize how to both self-regulate and understand when they can’t manage their thoughts or emotions and need to seek help
Setting Healthy Boundaries: Relationships and Mental Health -- Supports students in establishing and maintaining relationships that support their mental and emotional health
Building a Roadmap: Self-Management and Mental Health -- Supports students in maintaining goals despite stress, anxiety, and other factors that might impact mental health
Speaking Up for Your Needs: Decision-Making for Mental Health -- Develops students’ capacity to make thoughtful decisions for their mental health, or the mental health of people they care about
Practicing Empathy: Social Awareness and Mental Health -- Invites students to consider the perspectives of others and practice the skills of empathy and active listening

Student Audience: Grades 8-12

Requirements

Students have access to technology (e.g., laptop, desktop, tablet) and internet
Host teacher coordinates logistics with Peer Health Exchange staff
Host teacher potentially supports in program evaluation

Questions? Email HealthEdWorks@schools.nyc.gov

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Please complete your request for up to three (3) classes. Staff from the Office of School Wellness Programs will contact you about providing Peer Health Exchange's SEL/Mental Health program to additional classes.