Students talking about receiving peer education.

The learners don’t expect the peer educators to provide a great deal of biological or medical information, rather, the peer educators are seen as experts on being a teenager.

“We felt we could relate to them more, because they’re only like a few years older.”

Role plays used to develop assertiveness skills (the three Rs) are reported as realistic, and helping to promote healthy decision making strategies.

“The scenes that we acted out were good because it was a boy coming on to a girl and a girl resisting, we’d another scene and it was a girl coming on to a boy and the boy resisting, it was good each way.”