Peer education

Peer education is Girlguiding’s initiative that trains young members aged 14-25 to lead and deliver meaningful sessions for their peers. It allows girls to build confidence and creates a safe space for girls to learn about and tackle different topics with a peer educator they can relate to, who bring their own experiences with them to enhance the sessions. Peer education sessions are available to be delivered to Brownies, Guides and Rangers.

Why it works:
Peer education works as young members are able to relate to the peer educator(s) running the sessions. The sessions encourage open discussions, honesty and mutual respect and allow both the peer educator and girls in the sessions to develop new skills.

Peer educators have the opportunity to be trained to deliver up to 3 different topics;

Safe The World– giving young members the skills to recognise and deal with unsafe situations, as well as learning about healthy relationships.

Think Resilient– made in partnership with young minds this allows girls to discuss mental health and resilience giving them tools to help tackle stress they may face in their lives.

Breaking Free– this session empowers girls to challenge and break gender stereotypes by teaching them how to recognise these stereotypes and then challenge them within their community.

Peer education sessions give Brownies 60 UMA minutes and Guides and Rangers 90 minutes. Breaking Free and Safe The World both count towards the take action theme and think resilient counts towards the be well theme award.

Book a peer educator – email county.admin@girlguidingstaffordshire.org.uk who can help to co-ordinate this for you.

Become a peer educator – visit the Girlguiding website to find out more.

Peer educator badge request forms – you can earn pin badges for running peer education sessions. They can be downloaded from the Girlguiding website.