What is Project HELP (Health Education Leading Peers)?
The mission of Project HELP is to promote wellness and healthy lifestyle choices among Billings youths, through a team of school-based peer health educators. Project HELP is about students helping other students make healthy decisions. Its about community service and wanting to make a difference in our town. Supervised by local college students, peer health educators are trained to provide factual health information and referrals to friends, middle school and elementary school students. In Project HELP, high school students learn how to teach others about alcohol, exercise, tobacco, nutrition, stress management, violence prevention, eating disorders, dating and relationships, sexual harassment, depression and other topics. Project HELP will provide weekly informational programs and drug free activities throughout Billings. All Project HELP participants agree to spend 4 hours a month providing anti-drug community service. Peer health educators will also serve as student representatives
