Gorilla Peer Health promotes, supports, and encourages healthy living for all students and provides educational resources on a variety of health topics to help students make informed decisions about their life. What Is Gorillas In Your Midst:
We are a Peer Health Education group interested in reaching our peers concerning various social issues through interactive skits, performances and presentat
ions in order to help them make healthier, more informed decisions. We have produced a variety of programming on such topics as:
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Rape, Acquaintance/Date Rape, and Sexual Assault
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS
Eating Disorders
Contraception and Unexpected Pregnancy
Suicide
Depression
Stress Management
These programs are provided to PSU student groups and local schools to help them become better informed to make healthier decision in their own lives and to assist in the lives of others around them. Why Peer Education:
It is our belief that peer education is an effective instrument in which one may deliver information to a target audience, since the messenger is more like them in lifestyle and circumstances. In other words, you are more likely to listen to someone you identify with than someone who is going to lecture you. What To Expect:
Our programs are highly versatile and adaptive, giving us the opportunity to cater our message to our target audience. We use a variety of formats to accomplish this, including skits, individual vignettes, games, guided discussions, informal presentations, songs, and dramatizations. Most of our programs can be done in one hour, and consists of a warm-up activity, a brief introduction, the performance itself, a question and answer time, de-rolling, and closure. A sound system is requested as well, but not necessary for our presentation for your school or group.
