Certified Peer Educator Program

Certified Peer Educators are students who help fellow students make healthy, or healthier, choices. After completing a course the educators are certified by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. Training includes:

• Making effective change
• Active listening
• Crisis response
• Bystander intervention
• Empowering others
• Signs and symptoms of overdose
• Rescue breathing
• Administering Naloxone
• Alcohol and drug addiction
• Gender identity and sexuality
• Responding to disclosure of gender-based misconduct

Student peer support is available now:

If you or someone you know would like to talk to a Certified Peer Educator, please email afranco@uakron.edu or call 330-972-7266 for office hours and information.

To Become a Certified Peer Educator:

Complete the online application and email Allison Gillis a copy of a student resume at afranco@uakron.edu.