PO223: Peer Mentor Training: Including Critical Dialogues to Promote School Belonging

  • PMD: 4,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. develop a critical analysis of school belonging for intersectionally minoritized groups;
  2. learn procedures for implementing modified Check-In/Check-Out with high school students using a reciprocal peer mentor model; and
  3. review results of an intervention designed to address problem behavior, academic engagement, and school belonging for high school students.

Description

A school-based peer-mediated intervention was conducted with high school students from minoritized backgrounds. Students were trained using a critical dialogic approach, designed to improve behavior and feelings of belonging.

Presenter(s)

Madison M. Weist, UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Ellen C. Anderson, UW Madison
Anabell Ramos, UW Madison

Contributor(s)

Juliet Ye, Zhuanghan Dong, Stephen P. Kilgus, PhD, Sahian A. Cruz

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