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Peer Educator Program

The document discusses a peer educator program that selects adolescents to conduct weekly sessions on health topics for other adolescents. The peer educators form groups, maintain diaries, and help organize quarterly health days and club meetings. Suggested session topics include nutrition, puberty, relationships, sexual health, mental health, and risky behaviors.

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Peer Educator Program

The document discusses a peer educator program that selects adolescents to conduct weekly sessions on health topics for other adolescents. The peer educators form groups, maintain diaries, and help organize quarterly health days and club meetings. Suggested session topics include nutrition, puberty, relationships, sexual health, mental health, and risky behaviors.

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Peer Educator Program

SAATHIYA
Under the PE programme, four peer educators (two boys and two girls) are
selected per village/1000 population/ASHA habitation to reach out to
adolescents.
PEs are adolescents between 15 and 19 years of age from the community/village.
Each village (1,000 population) is expected to have four PEs, of which two PEs
(one male and one female) will be selected to work with adolescents in school,
and two PEs will be selected to work with adolescents who are out of school
Each Saathiya forms a group of 15-20 boys or girls from their community and
conducts weekly one to two hour participatory sessions using PE kits. Saathiya
also maintains a diary, including a brief overview of each session and the number
of participants.
Saathiya facilitates the organization of the quarterly Adolescent Health Days (AHD)
and participate in the Adolescent Friendly Club (AFC) meetings also.
Adolescent health and wellness days(AHWDs)

The Quarterly Adolescent Health Day (AHD) is one of the interventions under
RKSK to improve coverage with preventive and promotive interventions for
adolescents and to increase awareness among adolescents, parents, families and
stakeholders about issues and needs related to adolescent health. AHDs are
conducted at the village level at Anganwadi Centres or any other public place
where adolescents and all stakeholders have easy accessibility. Block adolescent
health coordinator is the focal person to coordinate for AHD, ensuring availability
of commodities and services and ensure that publicity is done before hand. ASHAs
engage with parents and families of adolescents to increase awareness about the
unique needs of adolescents.

Adolescent Friendly Club Meetings


Apart from above, Adolescent Friendly Club (AFC) meetings are also organized
once a month at sub-centre level under the overall guidance of ANM. These
typically cover 5 villages/5000 population composed of 10-20 Saathiya each.
During meetings, Saathiya from different villages meet and clarify issues which
they have encountered during their weekly sessions with the help of ANM.

Suggested Topics of Sessions


Major topics which can be covered during the outreach sessions are nutrition,
puberty related concerns, Premarital counselling, Sexual problems,
Contraceptive, Abortion, RTI/STI, Substance abuse, Learning problems, Stress,
Depression, Suicidal tendency, Violence, Sexual abuse, Other mental health
issues, healthy lifestyle, risky behaviour etc.

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