First and foremost, welcome to the Peer Help blog!
Peer Help started about five years ago by mental health coordinator Shelly ball and counselor Tedra Tanner. Their job is to educate us so that we can educate you about important mental and physical health topics.
Thankfully, Ms. Ball and Ms. Tanner leave group dynamics such as leadership to us and our meetings are led for the most part by one of the students. Peer Helpers represent every class from freshmen to seniors and this year we are proud to have our first peer helper from MacGregor. We are a dedicated group, who meet every advisory of every week in order to make sure presentations are successful for not just you but for us as well.
Peer Help has two main presentations: Depression and suicide in the fall and birth control in the spring. We make these presentations only to the freshman IHS classes. Later in the spring we also go in to the senior and junior history classes and give a pre-prom presentation.
However, we do not limit our work to presentations only. We also like to take on projects that help spread our name and that help our goal of educating you. This blog is an example of one such project we decided to take on this year. Another project we took on last year was the poster campaign with different colored triangles. The posters were a representation of being body positive despite size and shape. Peer Help takes up these different projects because it is simply impossible to give a presentation on every single topic we feel that is important to address and that is relevant to our lives as teenagers.
So there it is — who we are and what we do. We’re freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. We are individuals who have come together to educate and to better the lives of our peers both inside and outside of the group.
Stay tuned for the next article when you’ll be introduced to the main purpose of this blog as well as the contributors of this blog for this school year.
