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Peer Skills

Name: Peer Skills
Start: 2024-09-09T08:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-03-19T08:30:00+08:00
Location: YouthCARE

About

Facilitator Training

Through YouthCARE’s Peer Skills program, students are enabled and empowered to support their friends and peers when issues arise. With a focus on developing listening and problem-solving skills, this capacity-building program enriches students’ social and interpersonal competencies, and promotes school and community supports.

Peer Skills program uses an experiential learning approach underpinned by the principles of enablement and child-centred practice. Students engage in games and activities and then reflect on their experiences through debriefing, drawing out key themes and applications.

Students cover the following topics:
What are Peer Skills?
Values and Attitudes
Listening and Responding
Problem Solving
Looking After Yourself
Getting Help

Our Facilitator Training runs over two full days, and future training dates for 2026 are as follows:

Term 1, Week 4 - BUNBURY REGION: 25-26 February (Wednesday/Thursday)
Term 1, Week 7: 19-20 March (Thursday/Friday)
Term 3, Week 7: 31 August - 1 September (Monday/Tuesday)
Term 4, Week 3: 28-29 October (Wednesday/Thursday)

The two training courses in Term 1 are available for booking now. You can scroll through the calendar to select required dates. Please note that training is offered at YouthCARE's Head Office in West Perth unless otherwise stipulated.

The full training costs include our Peer Skills Resource Kit. A reduced cost is offered for additional staff members where a Resource Kit is being (or has previously been) purchased.