Youth

IFSI recruits and trains peer educators for the PHACE program. The peer educators represent all of the major Asian refugee/immigrant groups (i.e. Vietnamese, Ethnic Chinese, Bangladeshis, Laotians, and Cambodians). Each youth is required to attend 12 hours of training. 

Peer educators are provided with AIDS 101 training and receive the following additional training: 

1. decision-making; 

2. coping skills; 

3. self-reliance and self-esteem building; and, 

4. cultural and community pride and responsibility. 

Peer educators utilize English as their training language. Their responsibility is to increase the awareness of other API youth about HIV and to teach them methods to avoid HIV infection. This is accomplished primarily through classroom presentations and culturally and linguistically competent plays/skits that the peer educators create and perform.

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