Summary

Young people are recruited, trained, and supported to promote a specific type of behavior change among their peers through training, presentations, and other learning events. Peer educators teach or share information, build skills, and promote a values or attitude shift among others who are at a similar age or stage of development and/or share similar social backgrounds or life experiences. Peer education has been less than effective at health-specific behavior change (see this study for more information); non-peer educators and other approaches should be considered for health programming (e.g., peer mobilization).