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Bordentown PEP

What Is Bordentown’s PEP?

The Bordentown Prevention Education Program (PEP) is a comprehensive, sexual health program that utilizes peer-to-peer education to increase students´ knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors associated with healthy decision-making.

The program model is designed to:

  •        Provide high school students increased knowledge and abilities to effectively teach sexual health to teenagers in an atmosphere of mutual respect
  •        Give peer educators the information, communication skills, and confidence to be effective sexual health advocates and leaders among their peers
  •        Equip students with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to avoid STIs, HIV and unintended pregnancy
 
Bordentown  PEP is a course for-credit that meets daily during semester two. Carefully selected junior and senior students are enrolled in the PEP course and provided with educational training that addresses a range of topics related to sexual health. The peer educators, in turn, conduct a series of structured workshops with groups of younger peers.