Hey You Guys!!!
Social Mentors have arrived!
Pick up your application TODAY! (Cause the new students next year need YOU!!)
If you have:
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Understood the feelings of others
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Been approached by friends or family for advice
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Helped co-workers create solutions to problems
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Overcome personal setbacks or obstacles
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Searched for ways to help others more effectively
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Demonstrated leadership during tough times
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Gained wisdom from struggling with life transitions
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Learned valuable lessons from previous experience
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Achieved your goals with peer support or
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Created reality from visions, dreams, or aspirations…
Then you would be a great addition to our organization!
Research has shown that students usually go to other students first when they are experiencing a problem. The peer helper program at NSU gives students a readily available resource for help and referral for most any issue they may encounter during their stay on campus. With an informational network of students available to help their peers and refer them to the appropriate resources, students will be able to get help before it becomes a crisis.
Being a peer helper at NSU provides a wonderful opportunity for you to build a variety of skills while helping your fellow students. Peer helpers are trained at an annual six-day training held before the beginning of the second semester in January. The training teaches skills in active listening, problem solving, assessment and referral. In addition, it covers issues pertinent to college students include suicide, violence, acquaintance rape, eating disorders, high-risk behaviors, addictions, etc. Following the training, peer helpers are asked to keep logs of the number of contacts they have with other students as well as the types of situations they encounter.
The NSU peer helpers also provide campaigns and special events every year dealing with issues pertinent to college students. Campaigns sponsored in the past include the following:
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Safe Spring Break
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Eating Disorders Awareness
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Sexual Responsibility
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Violence and Acquaintance Awareness
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Impaired Driving
We are looking for students who:
- Are easy to talk to and others turn to for guidance
- Convey non-judgmental attitudes
- Have a caring personality
- Are willing to help a friend in need
- Trustworthy
- Respectful
- Good academic standing
- Exhibits leadership potential
Join us for our 2008 training on January 8th-13th at Camp NeSoDak!
Act Today! Apply Now!
We’re not going to go into a long speech about how good Peer Helper Training will look on your resume (it will), or that prospective bosses will think it’s great (they will), or that you’ll meet people from this very institution that you never knew before (you will), or that the food at this place is fabulous (it is)…
What we WILL tell you is that at this training, you will learn about peer helping (what to do when a friend comes to you with a problem), natural highs (fun, fun, fun), yourself (yeah, you), and most of all, having a good time (more fun).
The training focuses on developing necessary skills in peer helping including:
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Basic skills in communication
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Facilitative listening
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Problem-solving and referral
Topics common to college students such as:
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Addictions
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Suicide
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Grief/Loss
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Violence
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Eating Disorders
Click here to apply!!
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