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Peer Mentoring: Harnessing Positive Influence

In Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and other youth-serving programs, peer mentoring can be used to improve outcomes for the youth served. This tip sheet provides an overview of the benefit of peer mentoring programs along with considerations for how grantees might incorporate a peer mentoring program into their existing programming.

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Peer Mentoring: Harnessing Positive Influence (PDF)

  • Community-based Organizations
  • Facilitators
  • Health Educators
  • Program Administrators
  • Program Managers
  • Counselors
  • Sub Recipients
  • Schools