Peer Educator Revitalisation Training (PERT)
 The focus of the Peer Educator Re-energising Training is to:
- Examining the role of HIV/AIDS Peer Educators from a fresh perspective
- Place HIV/AIDS – and thus Peer Educators – in a larger historical and social context
- History of Pandemics: What have we learned?
- Identities, beliefs and social structures that incubate pandemics
- Rational vs Reasonable approaches: How we think about what to do to help
- Gender and Economic Equity
- Treatment and complementary approaches:
o What has changed in the last 5 to 10 years?
- Mother-to-child transmission
- Antiretrovirals
- Nutrition
o The shift from ‘AIDS Kills’ to ‘Living with HIV/AIDS’;
- Implications for social marketing
- The importance of early intervention
- Expanding intervention strategies to cover all aspects of clinical infection
- Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS:
- Structures vs Functions
- Wellness
- Words matter: ‘HIV/AIDS’ vs ‘Wellness’ and creating of Stigma
- Expanding the function of PE’s beyond ‘HIV/AIDS’ to Wellness
- VCT: Upscaling innovations
- Working within – and expanding - existing structures, vs creating new structures
- Stigma: Strategies to overcome stigma
- Motivations: Prevention & Treatment Compliance
- Prevention: Where it has failed, and where it has worked. Why?
- Fundamentals of Health Motivation
- Individuals: Determination to Live (Context for protecting life)
- Groups: The Integral Approach (Spiral Dynamics)
- Helping others:
- The Ethics of Empowerment
- When it empowers
- When it hinders empowerment (Drama Triangle – Transactional Analysis)
- Caregiver burnout: Signs, symptoms, and prevention
- Techniques for getting to the fundamental problem, and generating solutions:
- Cartesian Logic:
- Defining the real problem
- Generating solutions that work & are accepted
- Communicating with different people, with different world-views:
- Rapport Skills
- How to ask questions that reveal the real problem (Meta Model)
- Entrain a model of how to deal with the issues of Peer Education, to maximize effectiveness, and deal with change:
- The Problem
- Ownership of the problem
- What do you want?
- What do they want?
- Establish existing motivational drivers
- Specify desired outcomes
- Method vs Outcomes
- Measurables
- Resources
- Sequence
- Sustainability
- Specify the exit procedure
- Delivery & Monitoring against outcomes
- Exit procedures
- In this process, Peer Educators will hopefully regain the passion, purpose, and commitment that caused them to become PE’s in the first place.
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