Illinois Right to Life Committee
Peer counseling sponsored by Planned Parenthood
Research readily reveals: Peer Counseling sponsored by Searching the Internet for information about "peer counseling" reveals that Planned Parenthood is using this strategy to reach teenagers for purposes of marketing their immoral philosophies about human sexuality and ultimately to generate more revenue from teenagers who then "need" their "products" (birth control, STD testing and treatment, pregnancy tests, and abortion). Some of the evidence of Planned Parenthood’s program is presented here. Peer
Advocates/Amigos Positivos - Junior High & High School
Peer Advocates/Amigos Positivos is an award-winning
peer education program offered in local junior and senior high schools and sanctioned by
Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The curriculum has been board approved and
implemented in schools for over twenty-five years. The goal of this comprehensive series
is to provide students with current information that impacts their daily lives, develops
stronger decision making abilities, and encourages healthy communication and life skills
so that participants can be a resource to friends, classmates and family
members. Students are recruited through self, peer and counselor referral, and must
have a signed permission slip by their parent/guardian and teachers. The students complete
14 interactive and empowering lessons on self-esteem, decision-making, family and
relationship communication, puberty, sexual health, HIV/AIDS and other current topics.
Participants are taught when to seek adult guidance and when to refer peers for
professional assistance. Upon completion of the beginning level Peer Advocates program,
participants are eligible for Advanced Peer Advocates. This includes additional
training in peer counseling and exposure to community leaders and role
models. Students are required to complete homework and field
assignments, which include taking care of the infant simulator, Baby Think It
Over, and visiting local social services agencies. Peer Advocates participants may also serve as Planned Parenthood interns and
volunteers; participate on teen panels, radio programs, health fairs and tabling events;
and attend professional conferences. Participation in the Peer Advocates program increases
the knowledge and skills of the participants, improves family and relationship
communication, and assists both the participants and their peers in managing the
challenges of everyday life.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppsbvslo/peer-advocates-amigos-positivos-23027.htm (2009 PP web)
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Components of
Promising Peer
Led Sexual Health Programs
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Planned
Parenthood Recognizes Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
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Community-education
event tackles dangers of teen pregnancy ...
http://www.floridaplannedparenthood.org/news/community-education-event-tackles-dangers-of-teen-pregnancy Davis
Andrew, 16, was among those performing. He's part of a new all-male peer-counseling
program sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando.
"We're trying to stop all the young people from going out and risking their
lives from unprotected sex," the Evans High School student said. Smart talk from the ‘sex ed girl’ Andreina
Cordova has a 15-minute window to change a life, just a few moments between the dismissal
of classes and the beginning of soccer practice.
She plunges into the throng of students on the sidewalk outside King/Drew Magnet High School of Science and Medicine. She
has memorized pages and pages of information on sex education and sexually transmitted
diseases. She’s ready to pass out cards from Planned Parenthood, listing services and
clinics. She is also armed with condoms.
Andreina
is 15. She’s been attending Planned Parenthood sex education events since the age of
13. She had just finished eighth grade when she became one of the youngest students ever
hired to be a peer advocate in a program whose goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and STD rates. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/09/local/me-peer9
Mann has been employed by Planned Parenthood since he was 15. He counsels teens who want to talk to someone their own age, and dispenses information about birth control and the different options available to pregnant teens. In the two years he has worked for Planned Parenthood, he has done everything from clinic escorting to counseling teens on HIV and AIDS. Peer outreach educators are constantly being trained in the Planned Parenthood philosophy, and are then encouraged to present it in their own way. Mann stresses the need to be detached and objective when dealing with patients. "Basically, one of the rules when you become an educator is that when you walk through the doors at Planned Parenthood, or when you have a contact, you leave your personal feelings behind and you have a professional attitude." Mann says you will never hear an educator say, "If I were you, I'd do this," or "You should do this," because it is not their job to make those decisions. www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/prism/mar95/teen.htm (March 1995) Peer counseling is a
technique which has been used effectively and extensively in sexuality values
clarification by Planned Parenthood affiliates and others. In such an approach, teenagers
are trained to become knowledgeable about the emotional and factual components of
reproductive health, and to serve as leaders in listening and giving advice to peers about
sex. (from
“School-Based Services for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents”
(approx 1985)
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