Teen Help via Positive Peer Role Models
When teen help has as it’s source other teenagers, it is often more effective than help rendered to teens by adults. After all, for troubled teens, adults are the enemies who block all of their efforts to live their own lives. Adults are accused of using scare tactics and bogus information in their fight against teen age drug abuse.
Somehow, the same messages when delivered by a fellow teen has more validity. The teens who serve as positive peer role models never get as much attention as their delinquent counterparts, but they undertake a valuable service in their work with their fellow students.
Relevant Tags:drug and alcohol abuse, positive peer role models, positive role models, teen age drug abuse, teen help, troubled teens“Roper is a member of the Hamilton County Teen Drug Advisory Board and is one of 27 students throughout the state named to the Indiana Point of Youth program, part of the Indiana Criminal Justice’s Substance Abuse Services division.
The program is a teen-led advisory group that has the ear of the governor, Indiana General Assembly and other policy-makers who seek solutions to youth substance use from a peer perspective.
“We set up the different goals that SADD chapters will have across the state,” Roper explained. “This year we’re focusing mainly on alcohol abuse, over-the-counter drugs and meth abuse.”
Roper relishes the opportunity to make a statewide impact on youth drug and alcohol abuse, helping her peers understand there’s more to life than getting drunk or stoned.”
