Train Peer Supporters
Please see Disclaimer: Peer Support Resources below.
Examples of Peer Support Training Agendas
Peer supporter trainings vary in duration based on the time, money, and resources available to each individual organization. Depending on the availability of your peer supporters and the manpower and resources available to your organization, you may opt for a shorter, one or two day training, versus a longer, multi-week training.
Please note: While the target audiences and topics of these resources vary, they do illustrate how to bundle important competencies and skills together to create a comprehensive approach to training peer supporters. Users would need to tailor sample curricula and agendas to best meet the needs of your specific setting or population.
Short Duration Trainings (less than 18 hours)
- Target Audience: Pacific Islander Community Health Workers
One day workshop on Diabetes Self-Management under OHP's Diabetes Manuals - Target Audience: College Students as Peer Mentors
2-day training agenda - Target Audience: People with Kidney Disease
4 - 2.4hour training sessions on peer support (see pg. 39 for training agenda) - Target Audience: People with Brain Injuries
One 4 or 6 hour session (sample training agenda beings on pg. 35)
Medium Duration Trainings (18 to 30 hours)
- Target Audience: College Students as Peer Supporters
6 – 3 hour weekday workshops and 2 – 6 hour Saturday workshops spread over 6 weeks - Target Audience: Peer Supporters for People with Disabilities
3 day training agenda
Longer Duration Trainings (over 30 hours)
- Target Audience: Community Health Workers
6 day training, each day with multiple sessions on HIV/AIDS Prevention - Target Audience: Consumers
13 – 3 hour sessions on peer support and mental illness (see pg. 1 for agenda) - Target Audience: Adolescents/Youth
6 day training - Target Audience: Direct Care Workers
8 training modules presented over several months
Disclaimer: Peer Support Resources
Peers for Progress aims to serve peer support programs around the world by providing a compilation of web-based resources for developing and enhancing these programs. Framed by peer support's core functions as outlined in Learn, we selected these materials from varied sources and from materials provided to us. In doing so, we have sought to include materials that reflect state-of-the-art knowledge of diabetes, peer support, diabetes management, and health promotion. Users should exercise their own judgment in assessing the appropriateness of materials for their own setting and population. Peers for Progress assumes no responsibility for the quality of evidence on which materials are based or consequences of their use.
Peers for Progress has no financial interests with specific websites or organizations listed in this section. For a full listing of our partnerships, please read About Us.
If a user would like to suggest additional resources, please Contact Us. As you use and possibly adapt resources, please give credit to the developing organization.
Peers for Progress is a program of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and supported by the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation.