1. Teens Promoting Health Awareness How to Start a Peer Tutor Project at Your School

2. The ¡VIVA! Peer Tutor Project of South Texas ISD  Teens promote health literacy through the use of National Library of Medicine resources Class presentations Outreach events  Program benefits Service learning Collaboration 21 st century skills

3. Overview Best Practices

4. Planning  Complete in advance  Write and distribute  Involve key players  Follow a timeline  Have a backup plan  Complete a budget  Buy supplies

5. Management  Consistency  The fewer, the better  Have an assistant who is informed

6. Recruiting  Establish criteria for program participation during planning  Advertise early and everywhere possible  Have a written job description  Make expectations clear

7. Applications, Screening, Selection  Students Submit letter of interest and/or application Review written applications to determine eligibility Get teacher, counselor and/or administration recommendations Check grades Should be upperclassmen Possess good public speaking skills

8. Orientation  Provide on first day  Delineate policies and procedures  Distribute calendar, materials and other information

9. Training  Practice with case studies or role-playing activities  Learn to give and receive feedback  Rehearse  Videotape

10. Parental Support  Make expectations clear Statement of commitment Calendars  Parent meeting Dress rehearsals Potluck

11. Monitoring  Hold feedback sessions with teachers, tutors and managers  Obtain written reports Could be a simple checklist  Final “Best Practices” session for program evaluation

12. PR  Begins with recruiting  Publicize progress to other members of district, families and public  Keep photo history  Give recognition

13. Record Keeping  Attendance records  Files of successful activities  Calendars

14. Evaluation  Collect data Guest log Attendance Feedback  Make adjustments  Report success

15. Detailed Information Your Campus

16. First Things First  Administrator approval  Medical librarian or qualified trainer recruited

17. Personnel  Program sponsor Campus librarian or teacher Motivated, energetic and organized  Trainer Medical librarian  Peer tutors Upperclassmen Must be passing all classes Good public speaking skills

18. Getting Started  Medical librarian trains program sponsor on NLM resources MedlinePlus, PubMed, Tox Town, Household Products Database  Program sponsor trains peer tutors Focus on MedlinePlus  Peer tutors practice and provide positive feedback Videotaping

19. Spreading the Word  Faculty meetings  Class presentations  Open houses  Sporting events  School activities

20. Documentation  Meeting attendance  Outreach/presentation attendance  Photos

21. Help is Here ¡VIVA! web site http://bla.stisd.net/viva.html

22. Our Project

23. NLM Resources Household Products Database Pub MedTox TownMedlinePlus Household ProductsPub MedTox TownMedlinePlus

24. Project Team Members  Lucy Hansen lucy.hansen@stisd.netlucy.hansen@stisd.net Principal Investigator  Sara Reibman sara.reibman@stisd.netsara.reibman@stisd.net Project Specialist  Ann Vickman ann.vickman@stisd.netann.vickman@stisd.net Project Director  Javier Jiménez javier.jimenez@stisd.netjavier.jimenez@stisd.net Technology Support  Debra Warner dwarner3@rgv.rr.comdwarner3@rgv.rr.com Project Consultant  Cindy Olney, PhD. olneyc@coevaluation.comolneyc@coevaluation.com Evaluation Consultant

25. PowerPoint prepared by Ann Vickman and Sara Reibman 2008