Conference Abstract

You Can't Touch What You Don't Know and You Can't Lead Where You Don't Go: GBAPP/TOPS Project Lessons Learned about Peer Street Outreach. R Miller, D Wilson, M Perez, T Serrano, T Johnson. TOPS/GBAPP.

90 Minute Workshop

Category: Adolescents & Young People

Presentation Date & Time: 03/27/98 15:45:00

The presentation is divided into three parts:

1. Discussion of non-traditional approach to street outreach.

a. Safety protocols: Know your neighborhoods. Be alert, street smart, and use common sense. What to do and what not to do in the middle of a shoot out.

b. Meeting peers where they are at: Speak to teens in their own language. Peer educators tell how they used their own life experiences to become more effective on the street.

c. Leading by example: Self disclosure of peer educators as to how they've changed their own behavior and lifestyle and helps peers to hear the message.

2. Performance of a prevention rap song "Listen to Reason". The peer educators will perform a prevention rap song they themselves have written. It is a creative way to communicate the prevention message.

3. Creative writing session to develop new prevention message. This exercise will encourage creativity in developing a new message as well as a way to communicate it.