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Peer Health Exchange's mission is to give teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. Peer Health Exchange does this by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public schools that lack health education.
- Trained 80 Barnard, Columbia, and New York University undergraduate volunteers during the 2004-05 academic year to teach a comprehensive health curriculum to 500 teenagers who would not otherwise have received health education in 5 New York City public schools, thereby increasing the number of trained health instructors in New York City public schools by 40%.
- Trained 110 volunteers in the 2005-06 academic year to teach a comprehensive health curriculum to more than 750 teenagers in 8 New York City public high schools.
- 60% of Peer Health Exchange students said they were more confident about their ability to prevent or avoid a health risk after attending Peer Health Exchange workshops, while 80% of students said that the information and skills they learned from Peer Health Exchange will help them make healthy decisions in the future.
- 90% of Peer Health Exchange college volunteers said their experience with Peer Health Exchange affected their career, academic, or volunteer plans while 100% of high school principals and staff who participated in the 2004-05 program said they would recommend the program to other high schools.
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In the 2006-07 academic year, Peer Health Exchange will serve more teenagers in need of health education by growing its existing college sites in New York City, launching in Boston Public Schools, and expanding to one additional new city.
Total Funding from New Profit to Date: $50,000
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