Peer Education

The project "You learn to do well at school" is a journey of peer education which takes place in two high schools in Rome over the course of three years. The aim of the project is promote well-being and prevent bullying through a peer approach, where students are trained as peer counselors to support their peers.

The first phase of the project involves the entire student body and has the aim of making it cohesive and enhancing it as a resource and protection factor. Through the intervention and guidance of the psychological team, the classes worked on creating a sense of belonging, collaboration, cooperation and integration between peers. This work allowed the creation of a positive and well-being climate, to limit marginalization or isolation, phenomena which can cause, in addition to individual discomfort with consequent poor academic performance and possible school dropouts, the onset of the phenomenon of bullying.

The second phase involves the identification, within the various classes, of students motivated to become peer consultants and provides them with training to strengthen personal resources, develop self-efficacy and skills (empowerment) identified together, including and shared (life skills). This was followed by monitoring, support and supervision of the peer counselors.

The third phase aims to consolidate the work done and further develop the function of peer counselors by integrating it into an educational program based on promoting well-being at school. Peer counselors become peer educators and enter the classroom to raise awareness among their classmates about the topics they have learned.