Creating a Healthy Bay Area for Teens with Peer Health Exchange (Referral Event: Yale)
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Bring the family for a fun and interactive evening to learn about teen preventative health through Peer Health Exchange, a nonprofit that trains college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education.
Event Date: Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 6:00pm
Time and Place: Thursday, 4/22/10, 6-8pm The University Club, 800 Powell St (at California) Bring the family to learn about teens’ health needs in the Bay Area and how Peer Health Exchange, a nonprofit that started at Yale in 1999, is addressing the huge need. If you have children of any age, are passionate about preventative health, or want to learn more about PHE and our Yale roots, join us for a fun and interactive evening on April 22nd. The event will feature Co-Founder and Executive Director Louise Davis ’03, who will speak to the need for health education and PHE’s history and progress, and college student volunteers from Berkeley and USF, who will teach select portions of PHE health workshops. Peer Health Exchange’s mission is to give teens the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education. Since 2003, we have trained more than 2,500 volunteers to teach PHE’s health curriculum to over 25,000 low-income 9th graders in NYC, Boston, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles. In San Francisco and Oakland, 160 volunteers from UC Berkeley, USF, St. Mary’s, and Mills are currently teaching 1,500 teenagers each week. We currently have 8 Yale alums on PHE staff and board, including Louise Davis ’03, Madeline Kerner ’07, Rachel Dickens ’07, and Eve Fine ’07. We hope you can join us! RSVP: http://www.yalesf.org/store.html?event_id=262
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