What is more powerful than adults teaching teens how to move on from the pain and trauma of the past – teens teaching other teens how to thrive in spite of the challenges and pain they have experienced.
For local high school students Mina Gherman and Kaylynn Bunnell, talking to their peers about the difficult situations among them makes all the sense in the world.
Gherman and Bunnell are peer educators through a program called, Alaska Promoting Health Among Teens — or AKPHAT. It is offered by the R.E.C. Room in Homer, and is a position that provides the two youths with the opportunity to teach on things like sexual health and making positive choices. But with a growing body of research and awareness, the young women have recently tackled an animal of a different kind: adverse childhood experiences.
[For more of this story, written by Chelsea Alward, go to http://homertribune.com/2014/1...th-powerful-message/]
Comments (2)