Project
HELP
Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
The future
is not someplace we are going, but one we are creating.
The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes
both the maker and the destination. - Schaar
What is
Project HELP (Health Education Leading Peers)?
The mission of Project
HELP is to promote wellness and healthy lifestyle choices among Billings
youths, through a team of school-based peer health educators. Project HELP is
about students helping other students make healthy decisions. Its about
community service and wanting to make a difference in our town.
Supervised by local college
students, peer health educators are trained to provide factual health
information and referrals to friends, middle school and elementary school
students. In Project HELP, high school students learn how to teach others about
alcohol, exercise, tobacco, nutrition, stress management, violence prevention,
eating disorders, dating and relationships, sexual harassment, depression and
other topics. Project HELP will provide weekly informational programs and drug
free activities throughout Billings. All Project HELP participants agree
to spend 4 hours a month providing anti-drug community service.
Peer health educators will
also serve as student representatives on community health and prevention
committees (e.g., Billings Healthy Communities Coalition, the United Tobacco Free Coalition, Billings-Yellowstone
County Drug Prevention Committee). As members of these committees, students
will help plan community wide prevention programs and help design prevention
messages directed to other teenagers.
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To get more information about Project HELP
contact Ernie Randolfi (657-2123) randolfi@msubillings.edu.
2002 Training Camp
Application(Adobe PDF Version Requires Acrobat Reader)
The Year 2001 Peer
HELPers E-mail
Project HELPers at Work!
(More Photos)
Photographs of the
Project HELP Training Camp 2000
A New HELPer
initiated project: A Drug Free Teen Center for Billings
Drug Prevention Planning
Committee
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