What is the Peer Leadership Project (PLP)?

The Peer Leadership Project (PLP) is a custom designed residential training for individual schools or organizations that wish to expand the leadership skills of the youth in their community and to address specific issues faced by that community. Up to 30 individuals can be trained in areas including, but not limited to, communication skills; problem solving; self-esteem building; mentoring skills; substance abuse prevention; teambuilding; suicide prevention; and diversity. The needs of Vermont communities vary widely, therefore the content of each training is developed by GMPP and the individual school or organization.

 
What can a Peer Leadership Project do for your school or organization?

  • Provide an excellent opportunity for youth to take a leadership role in their community.
  • Enhance the strength and participation of a group.
  • Improve the climate of the school/organization.
  • Develop effective teams of youth and adults working together.
  • Empower a team of people focused on prevention.
  • Tailor a training to address community needs.

What can the individual gain from a Peer Leadership Project?

  • A stronger sense of self from being part of a supportive community.
  • The ability to create and implement projects that can improve their everyday environment.
  • The chances of becoming harmfully involved in substance use will be reduced.

What else do I need to know?

GMPP plans and facilitates the PLP for you.  This includes a planning session with youth and adults from the community, a five hour staff training held prior to the PLP, two coordinators from GMPP, two outside presenters, materials used during the training, and any follow-up advisement needed. Travel outside of Chittenden County is not included. Need-based scholarships may be available.

How do I schedule a PLP?

PLP's can happen at anytime. They can happen on weekends or weekdays, whatever is convenient for you and your particular group. It is important to note, however, that a significant amount of planning must go into a PLP. Therefore, if you would like to schedule a PLP, you should do so at least one month in advance of the date you would like.

Who uses the Peer Leadership Project?

  • In 1999, 17 Vermont schools and 717 students participated.
  • In 1998, 10 Vermont schools and 287 students participated.
  • In 1997, 7 Vermont schools and 174 students participated.

Schools that have participated are:

 

Albert D. Lawton School

Barre City Elementary and Middle Schools

Bellows Free Academy-St. Albans

Bennington Youth Promotion Counsel

Blue Mountain Union High School

Cabot School

Essex Middle School

Essex Teen Center

Franklin County Caring Communities

Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School

Harwood Union Junior and Senior High School

Lund Family Center

Mill River Union High School

Otter Valley Union Middle and High School

People’s Academy

Proctor High School

Richford Junior/Senior High School

Riverside Middle School

Shelburne Community School

Sheldon Elementary

South Royalton School

Vergennes Union High School

Whitingham School

Wilmington School

Wilmington Middle-High School

Winooski High School

Weathersfield Middle School

The YMCA of Greater Burlington

 

 

 

 

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