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NJ Peer to Peer Rebel 2 PALS
 

NEW JERSEY PEER TO PEER (NJPTP)
Peer Leadership and Substance Abuse Prevention Network for NJ Middle Schools
This was a great [program] and I learned so much. I improved my leadership skills, public speaking skills, and met many new people. I am so glad I attended because I believe our [team] can really make a difference in our state and community.
- Student Leadership Corps Member

what schools receive
 
Comprehensive training for stakeholders and advisors
Stakeholder Training
Orientation and Residential Training for New Advisors
Follow-Up Training for Veteran and New Advisors
Special statewide events for students and advisors
Separate Days of Learning for veteran and new schools for advisors and students to network, expand their prevention skills, and learn outreach activities to conduct in their schools
Curriculum materials
New Jersey Peer to Peer Advisors Guide – focused on substance abuse prevention paired with the social and emotional skills implicit in the ability to refuse drugs and communicating effectively with peers and younger students
New Jersey Peer to Peer Outreach Handbook – presentations for students to conduct with their peers covering five key drugs including tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and over-the-counter/prescription drugs
Ongoing support and assessment
School-based site visits and consultation as needed
Program evaluation
Program newsletter
Funding
Program costs can be funded through Character Education and/or Title IV (Safe and Drug-Free Schools Act) grants offered by the NJ Department of Education.

references
Roosevelt Intermediate School, 301 Clark Street,
Westfield, NJ 07090
Contact: Dr. Ken Shulack, Principal
908-789-4560
Upper Pittsgrove School, 235 Pine Tavern Road,
Monroeville, NJ 08343
Contact: Dr. Jay Dugan, Superintendent/Principal
856-358-8163
Lord Stirling Community School, 101 Redmond Street,
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Contact: Rosaura Lorente, Principal
732-745-5900, x 5391

how do we know it works?

The results of five years of comprehensive program evaluation clearly indicate that New Jersey Peer to Peer has demonstrated success in achieving its stated objectives:

Students exposed to NJPTP activities both as student leaders and as participants in peer-led outreach activities have repeatedly demonstrated lower mean rates of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use than students with no exposure to the program. This result has been found consistently for use both in the past 30 days and in the past year.

Regarding attitudes toward substance use, consistent findings have emerged indicating that targeted students are significantly more likely than control students to report:
 
  • greater abilities to talk to peers about substance use issues;
  • greater perceptions of student efficacy to impact substance use;
  • more appropriate perceptions of risks associated with student use; and
  • stronger desires to talk to adults, peers and friends about substance use issues.

Significant findings have been consistently linked with positive school climate, indicating that climate may be a mediating factor related to the success of prevention programs.
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Client Schools
Press
    “Peers learn anti-drug message”, Burlington County Times, April 4, 2001
    “Students learn to be peer leaders”, Today’s Sunbeam, April 15, 2002
 
For more information, contact...
  Dr. Abby Attias, Vice President

609-252-9300 x 103
Aattias@
princetonleadership.org
 
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