[YAP 2010 APPLICATION]- due June 7, 2010
Application Instructions:
Print, fill out, and send or take it to: Joanna Dawson, UAY Youth Center, 410 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240.
YAP'ers undergo training before completing projects. For more information, contact the UAY Health Educator:
Call Joanna Dawson: 319-338-7518.
Email Joanna Joanna.Dawson@unitedactionforyouth.org
Position Title: Youth Advisory Panel Peer Educator, “YAP’ER”
Time Required: 40 hours of training (end of summer, early fall) plus 1 ½ hour weekly meetings/trainings during the school year
Purpose: To serve throughout the school year as a positive role model; to assist teens in refusal skills needed to abstain; to educate teens
about sexual health; to gain confidence and improve presentation skills; to become more articulate; to explore public health and
social services career opportunities.
Qualifications: to be a positive role model, be responsible and have decision making and leadership skills, have ability to organize information &
materials, have ability to work & communicate effectively in verbal & written form; have ability to work with minimal supervision,
have a sincere interest in working in an educational setting, must complete volunteer application
Resources
Available: UAY Health Educator will provide training opportunities, appropriate manuals, audio visual aids, supplies and pertinent materials
Specific
Responsibilities: Street outreach special projects (as needed/determined); Peer-to-Peer communication (developing presentations, internet blogging,
internet videos, texting responses, writing for the monthly health newsletter, teen clinic peer |
