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STAND & SERVE: A Promising Practice Model - Evidence
confirms that peer-facilitated school, family and community
programs foster positive social change, prevent interpersonal
violence and are significantly more cost-effective than addressing
the problem after the fact. According to Dr. Victor LaCerva,
author of Pathways to Peace, 90% of behavior is learned
from modeling. Teaching youth to model positive behaviors
to their peers is the most powerful way to change long-term
youth behaviors, and creates a strong ripple effect that reaches
far beyond the parameters of our program.
Because of our years of success with this asset-based model,
Peer Solutions is now assisting the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in the development of National Rape Prevention
and Education Guidelines and is also participating in a panel
for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Peer Solutions recently presented the model at the Harvard
School of Public Health, and our Executive Director was chosen
for the 2006 Kris Bell Award for her years of outstanding
service to prevention in Arizona. In summer 2006, Peer Solutions
will begin presenting the STAND & SERVE model to nonprofit
and state-based agencies in every state in the U.S. through
CDC regional trainings.
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