Build a Peer Program
The PEER Center and our three national centers are here to help you evaluate how a peer program can help you deliver the best quality care to your HIV-positive clients. We will provide you with all the tools you need to explore best practices. These include:
- Designing a peer program to meet you organization’s unique needs and goals
- Integrating peers into your network of care
- Recruiting, compensating, and supervising peers in your care setting
- Providing training and education to peers and their supervisors
- Developing tools and metrics to measure the success of your peer program
The PEER Center can provide the resources and support you need to launch your own peer program, or strengthen the one you already have in place. Start by viewing one or more of our Webcasts about different things to think about when developing a peer program, from preparing an organization and recruiting and training peers to evaluating how well your program is working.
Or you may wish to explore our toolkits for developing peer programs to support people living with HIV/AIDS in care and treatment:
Building Blocks to Peer Program Success: A toolkit for developing HIV peer programs
The capacity building toolkit provides a framework to successfully utilize peers to engage and retain people living with HIV/AIDS in care and treatment.Covering aspects of peer program planning from organizational readiness through evaluation, this online toolkit outlines a step-by-step process to develop a new peer program or enhance an existing one.
Building Blocks to Peer Success: A toolkit for training HIV-positive peers to engage PLWHA in care
This toolkit is designed for experienced trainers and training organizations who want to design, enhance, or refine their training program for peers. It includes a toolkit guide, toolkit modules, and comprehensive training curricula.
