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| This program [NJPTP] allows for one-to-one
contact, peer with peer. [It encourages] making healthy choices, staying
drug free, being violence free, learning how to resolve conflict,
and learning strong interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. This is
something that can have a major rippling effect within our communities
and schools. |
| - Administrator, NJPTP School |
new jersey peer to peer (njptp)
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| Peer Leadership and Substance Abuse
Prevention Network for NJ Middle Schools |
| NEW JERSEY PEER TO PEER (NJPTP)
is a statewide, school-based program designed to develop leadership
capacity and reduce substance use among middle school students.
In participating schools, teams of seventh and eighth grade student
leaders meet with adult mentors each week using a structured curriculum.
Weekly training sessions emphasize team-building, leadership development,
and learning about substances, including tobacco, alcohol, marijuana,
inhalants, and designer drugs. Once trained, students lead interactive
workshops with peers, parents, and faculty on topics such as substance
abuse prevention, conflict resolution, problem solving, and parent-child
communication.
NEW JERSEY PEER TO PEER
is funded by the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division
of Addiction Services.
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peer and leadership support
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| Character Education for Middle School
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| PEER AND LEADERSHIP SUPPORT
(PALS) is a custom-designed character education program
that trains older students in a middle school or K-8 setting to
serve as role models for their younger peers. The PALS leaders perform
outreaches to these students, leading them in pro-social activities
and discussions. The program is tailored to meet the two
following school needs:
(1) to ease the transition of incoming middle school students
(2) to create greater cohesion and a sense of community across multiple
grades
To those ends, PALS leaders attend a retreat and weekly classes
to learn how to work cooperatively with each other and facilitate
learning station activities focused on team building, friendship,
problem solving, and decision making. Faculty advisors are trained
to oversee the program, facilitate the weekly class for the older
students in leadership skills, and organize special events like
Family Nights, Community Service Projects, etc.
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| Middle School Students Making a Difference
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| REBEL 2 is a middle
school tobacco prevention after-school program designed either to
augment existing peer leadership programs, such as New Jersey Peer
to Peer or to stand on its own. Having emerged out of a statewide
tobacco prevention program for high school students that those students
named REBEL (Reaching Everyone by Exposing Lies), REBEL
2 shares REBEL’s focus on helping students, their families,
and communities to change social norms about tobacco. This program
is effective and easy to implement. Students attend bi-monthly,
after-school meetings that focus on tobacco education and prevention
skill-building through lively, interactive activities. As a culmination
of their learning, REBEL 2 students
learn to facilitate interactive presentations that introduce elementary
students to the dangers of tobacco use.
REBEL 2 is sponsored
and funded by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services,
with funds from the increase in the New Jersey cigarette tax (P.L. 2002, c. 33).
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