Approved Workshops with Descriptions and Presenters

Strategies That Build Rapport, Connections and Motivate Students.
This workshop will have a few different learning activities throughout the duration, ranging from the use of music, modeling, paired shares and discussion. Intended outcomes are for the participants to have a greater understanding of the power of non-verbal communication. Participants will understand the difference of influence of power vs. the power of influence to our students. Participants will also be exposed to many other non-verbal helpful hint techniques for building rapport and relationships.
Nancy Blackwell M.Ed., Longevity of Success

Activities, Games, and Engagers
YES, IT”S TRUE!!!!!! Time flies when you are having LEARNING! Create a learning environment for which students stay engaged longer. These activities build rapport and communication with students. The use of music will also be modeled throughout this workshop. So come get ENERGIZED!!!
Nancy Blackwell M.Ed., Longevity of Success

A Team Approach To Establishing Effective Peer Programs
Collaboration is the key to creating successful peer helping programs. An interdisciplinary team increases opportunities to develop student competencies. Participants will learn strategies for initiating programs and recruiting a diversified group of faculty members and students. The components of effective training will be addressed. How to utilize the NAPP Programmatic Standards will be emphasized.
Roselind Bogner Ph.D., LMHC, CPPE, Niagara University

A Team Approach To Maintaining Effective Peer Programs
Peer helping programs can improve the school climate, foster positive student behavior, and improve academic achievement. An interdisciplinary team increases the long term effectiveness of peer helping programs. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of administrative support and assessment of student outcomes. The NAPP rubric for program evaluation will be discussed.
Roselind Bogner Ph.D., LMHC, CPPE, Niagara University

Confidentiality: The Cornerstone in Peer Programs
The issue of confidentiality is central to the success of any peer program. Participants will share how they approach the concept of confidentiality in training and beyond. We will then discuss what has worked and what hasn't worked so well. We will try to reach consensus on "best practices" for this critical issue in Peer Programs.
Darlene Colmar, NAAP Board Member

Peer Helper Group Recruitment & Training Kick-Off Retreat
With 28 years of experience in Peer Helper training, I've learned a great deal about the importance of matching students with the program’s philosophy, curriculum, and intended objectives. There are many reasons for starting a peer helper program and much thought and consideration should be applied to the selection of students. Each of my peer helper trainings has started with a 24-48 hr retreat. The retreat has been an important ingredient in the success of our program. This workshop will be experiential. Participants will be engaged in activities; discussion will be focused on elements essential in Selection and Retreat Planning as well as ideas, concerns, and feedback of others in the workshop group.
Stewart Coulson, Charles City Middle School

Peer Helping for Seniors
This program describes a pilot Peer Helping Program for senior citizens in an assisted living residence in West Newton, Massachusetts. Differences and similarities between working with senior citizens and with teens or preteens are addressed. Successes, stumbling blocks, and errors are discussed. A final ten minutes of problem solving will help the presenter and those interested in starting a senior program.
Florence Cranshaw, Former NAPP Board Member

Move Over American Idol & Make Room For Your American Health Idol!
In this exciting workshop based on American Idol, you will learn how to present our interactive curriculum by experiencing it first hand, as well as have the opportunity to participate in a few Health Idol activities. How can you get your students and staff excited about Health and have them actually competing with each other as other students cheer them on? Come and find out, as we leave Paula, Randy and Simon behind to share with you how to develop a similar program at your site and the secrets of Health Idol.
Ian Enriquez, Lincoln HS Youth Outreach Program

Think You're Down with the Youth?
The reality is that the expectation of a young person is often not very high. Let's create an equal plane where adults recognize youth for their ideas and abilities. We are former peer resources students who are now peer interns teaching middle & high school students. We still experience adultism from faculty. Participants will learn to become better listeners while supporting student ideas and student leadership. Participants will see how to have young people take more active leadership roles. Participants will recognize the part we all play in adultism.
Elizabeth Hubbard, San Francisco Peer Resources Leadership Interns

Suicide Prevention Program
This workshop will present the program used at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts. Wellesley High School experienced 5 suicides over a 5 year period. The first part of the program attempts to demystify depression and understand it as a treatable illness. The second part of the program focuses on how high school students can help their friends. All students are trained in ways to make effective referrals to trusted adults
Thom Hughart, Wellesley High School

Maintaining Balance as a Leader
Leadership development is an ongoing process. Learn to identify different styles of leadership in your group. Regain your own equilibrium as a leader, through understanding Balanced Leadership Theory
Wendy Krom, Community Consulting Services

Saving Lives: A Teen Suicide Prevention Workshop
When dealing with a suicidal adolescent many people fear that they will say something that might upset and/or precipitate a suicide. Despite the goal of preventing a death by any means possible, this anxiety is common. This workshop examines warning signs and how to handle an adolescent suicidal crisis.
Elaine Leader ,TEEN LINE

Confrontation: The Scariest Skill - Preserving a Relationship
This workshop is designed to provide experiences, models, and guidelines for learning and teaching the process of caring confrontation. Within this session, learn how to confront behavior that is destructive to a relationship while preserving that relationship. This is a skill for the counselor or the individual’s toolbox. It is a means of helping individuals in their relationships with others, which, once assimilated, can be used and taught to assist peer helpers of all ages.
Linda Parker, West Boylston High School

Confrontation: The Crisis Model - When You Have to Break Confidentiality
Learn when and how to confront behavior that is destructive to a person. Become more skilled at sharing the information with the experienced professionals. This workshop will provide models and guidelines for learning and teaching the necessary components of crisis confrontation. This model provides the structure and practice for professionals and non-professionals alike to present the intervention necessary when an individual is at risk.
Linda Parker, West Boylston High School Special Education Coordinator

Youth Court: Peer to Peer Involvement Reshaping Juvenile Justice
Youth court, also called peer court is rapidly expanding across America as local communities increasingly implement these juvenile justice programs that involve volunteer youth in the sentencing process of youth who have committed a crime or offense. Learn more about implementing or enhancing a local youth court program and begin utilizing positive peer pressure that can be harnessed and redirected to shape and influence positive behaviors and attitudes in our youth, as you help reduce juvenile crime in your community.
Scott Peterson, YouthBuild USA

From Peer Helper to Safe School Ambassador: Improving School Climate & Safety with Peer Leaders
Students see, hear, and know things adults don't, and can intervene in ways adults can't. This workshop introduces strategies that equip and empower diverse student leaders with nonviolent communication skills to intervene effectively with their peers to prevent and stop bullying and mistreatment or threats to the campus or personnel.
Rick Phillips, MS Ed, Community Matters

Recruitment & Selection
The one area we all .. have opinions on, so come and join in the debate! And bring your opinion with YOU, as there is no Right or Wrongl Do you accept everyone who applies? Do your peers, go through interviews, fill out forms and have a minimum GPA? Must they pledge to be drug free? Would you lose 70 % of your potential peers if you have them sign a contract? What's in it? Come and join in on the debate that all of us ... disagree on.
Ira Sachnoff, Peer Resource Training and Consulting

Tobacco & Your Peers - 5 Great Training Ideas
If your peers are conducting Tobacco Peer Education, come, see and experience 5 Great Teaching Ideas and School Wide Activities that that all Peer Educators can be trained to conduct.
Ira Sachnoff, Peer Resource Training and Consulting

How To Get Your Administration and Faculty to Love (OK Maybe Like) Your Program
We have all heard about a great peer program that died due to lack of administrative and faculty support. We also know that if you don't eventually get their support your program can be put in jeopardy. So how can you gather their support? Come and find out!
Ira Sachnoff, Peer Resource Training and Consulting

Having Fun with Team Building
In this energizing and interactive program, participants will have fun while learning teambuilding skills that promote working together and personal growth. Participants will leave with many new ideas for icebreaker activities to implement in their peer programs. Dress should be casual and comfortable; don't be afraid to be a kid again!
Kara Scheidler, Rush County Schools PHAF (Peer Helpers & Facilitators) Program

Promoting a Safe and Caring School Campus
Middle School peer helpers demonstrate a variety of techniques they utilize to promote safe and caring school environments in a kindergarten through eighth grade district. This student--driven presentation features puppets, role~plays and testimonials designed to enhance student self-esteem and develop self-confidence. The program will be of value to anyone looking to begin a new program or add to an existing peer program.
Michael Stanforth, Piute Middle School PALS

Safe Schools: Utilizing your Peer Program in the Prevention of Gangs, Racism, Violence & Bullying,br> One of the many goals of this workshop is for participants to develop a strong understanding of the impact group identity has on individual adolescent behavior, particularly with gangs, violence, and bullying. Educators must understand the importance of developing peer programs that foster relationships among youth and developing a sense of belonging for youth to a peer group identity. Our youth are simply growing up in a violent culture that invests itself in a code of silence. Peer Programs must counter this and develop a culture of communication, where students feel connected to one another and responsible for the outcomes of their campus culture.
John Vandenburgh, PLUS Program - Peer Leaders Uniting Students

Legacy of Hope
Laugh, cry, and identify with captivating characters and powerful personal stories. From funny to profound, LEGACY OF HOPE@ will remind you of friends, family and feelings. Identify emotions that drive youth and adults to destructive choices. You will be forever touched and your spirit renewed through this awe-inspiring message.
Susie Vanderlip, LEGACY

Understanding the Teenage Brain: Research and Strategies for Supporting Adolescent Decision-Making
We will explore the new research about the teen-age brain and how teachers, youth workers and parents can use it to support their work and their struggles. Through activities and discussion, we will review the behaviors and needs of adolescents and find strategies for engaging and supporting them in making good decisions.
Laurie Jo Wallace, The Medical Foundation

Kids Learn Empathy & Respect (KLEAR)
This workshop introduces an innovative, comprehensive school wide peer program whose goal is to eradicate language and behavior that promotes hate and to create a common language of respect in the school community. We will demonstrate many ways to use trained peers in this program, as strategists for referred students, as conflict mediators, and as mentors. KLEAR helps kids make better decisions through role plays and development of listening, confrontation, and assertiveness skills.
Sharon Yoerg & Gwen Sidley, Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center/Woodside HS