The Center for Prevention & Outreach Health Education Office offers three opportunities for an Undergraduate student to be a Peer Educator:
- Prevention Through the Arts ("Swallow This")
- CHOICE Peer Health Educators / Choosing Healthy Options in the College Environment
- CHILL / Peer Health Educators
The CHOICE and CHILL programs are full-year, two-semester, three-credit internship. Each year approximately 15 students are trained to present educational programs on different health topics listed below. In addition, they coordinate a variety of health awareness and promotion programs such as information tables, a newsletter, condom-grams, TV and radio ads, and others.
Students are required for both programs to spend two hours per week on public awareness projects in addition to class time.
Health Topics covered:
CHOICE Peer Health Educators
The Students in this program educate on general health topics such as Safer Sex, Nutrition, Cancer Awareness, HIV - AIDS and other STDs e.t.c.
CHILL / Peer Health Educators
This program is sponsored by the CPO Health Education Office and the University Counseling Center and covers mental health topics such as Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Management and e.t.c.
If interested in any of these Peer Education Programs please contact the Health Education Office at: (631) 632-6689, or (631) 632-9338, or (631) 632-6682.