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NASPA Peer Education Conference

In-Person Conferences Health, Safety, and Well-being Alcohol and Other Drug Campus Safety and Violence Prevention Health, Safety, and Well-being Initiatives Student Leadership Programs Wellness and Health Promotion Graduate Undergraduate

Join us at the 2025 Peer Education Conference (formerly General Assembly), now part of the NASPA Strategies Conferences in Boston, MA. Students and advisors from across the nation will gather in-person to be inspired, share ideas, and build exceptional peer education programs promoting strategies in health, safety, and student leadership.

 

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NASPA's Peer Education Conference: a NASPA Strategies Conference affords peer educators and advisors a tremendous selection of learning opportunities to contribute to the development of individual peer educators, groups, advisors, and the field of peer education. The Peer Education Conference also provides pre-conference learning opportunities to enhance the conference experience, including the Certified Peer Educator (CPE) Train-the-Trainer Course.

Throughout the conference, presentations will highlight efforts regarding high-risk drinking prevention, sexual responsibility, mental health, violence prevention, tobacco prevention, and more. The Peer Education Conference is the guiding annual event of peer education efforts. It’s impossible to leave without new ideas, new ways of thinking, new information, and new friends. This conference is perfect to energize students, motivate advisors, and re-commit to making peer education and student health a campus priority.

To learn more about Confernce Registration, Full Schedule, Featured Speakers, Contiunuing Education, Venue, or Sponsors, click HERE to be redirected to the NASPA Strategies Conferences main page.

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Conference Themes and Learning Outcomes

The Peer Education Conference themes contribute to both student and peer education advisor conference learning experiences. They include individual skill building, leadership development, program description and adaptation, peer education group development, cultural trends, and campus issues. We encourage you to submit sessions that are applicable for students only, peer education advisors only, or sessions that both students and advisors would benefit from. Explore each theme in more detail below. 

Individual Skill Building and Leadership Development

Presentations submitted under this category should be designed to build skills and capacities of individual peer educators, peer education groups, and/or advisors. For example, programs might focus on the successful retention of peer educators, how to facilitate group meetings, or training peer education groups on specific core leadership competencies (assessment, public speaking, feedback, program planning, motivational interviewing, etc.) or topical content areas (e.g. sexual health, active lifestyles, alcohol and drug knowledge, bystander skills, etc.).

  • Develop individual hard and/or soft skills that will enhance an individual's capacity in their role as a peer educator and/or advisor.

  • Evaluate current research and best practices around contemporary health education topics to build high impact programming

  • Reflect on different leadership styles and how they support and enhance individual and group development.

  • Develop leadership, supervision and mentorship skills centering accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion for peer educators and/or advisors.

Learning outcomes for presentations submitted to this category might include:

  • After attending this session, peer educators will understand how to use active listening techniques during program presentation to address audience responses.

  • Participants attending this session will be able to define the difference and articulate approaches to supervising, advising, or mentoring peer education groups.

  • During this session, attendees will identify their own personal conflict management style and practice how to mediate peer conflict.

Try answering one or more of the following prompting questions in your submission:

  • What specific skills or content information would a participant to this session hope to leave with?

  • How will the skills developed through attending this session benefit a peer educator or an advisor in the work done back on campus?

  • How can participants attending this session apply this knowledge on their campus?

 

Adaptable Solutions and Creative Approaches to Programming and/or System-Level Change

Presentations submitted under this category should be designed to explore ways in which student-led programs and initiatives are evolving and innovative. For example, sessions might feature a campus case-study of how a program can be adapted to a different institutional type, how groups advocated for wellness policy changes, how peer education groups used a creative approach to social media, or how data informed a program redesign.

  • Identify innovative and promising approaches for prevention, harm-reduction, and risk-reduction programming.

  • Articulate how to train students to apply innovative strategies to problem-solving.

  • Examine how successful programs or initiatives can be adapted to a variety of campus contexts.

  • Illustrate through case studies how peer education groups can build collaborative campus relationships to support students engaging in high-risk behaviors.

  • Utilize evaluation data to build capacity, inform programming, and promote campus engagement.

Learning outcomes for program presentations to this category might include:

  • Participants attending this session will be able to adapt a social media strategy for reaching a wider audience in the weeks leading up to spring break.

  • Participants will be able to identify how peer educators could support initiatives across the five actions of health promotion

  • After attending this session, participants will be able create a plan to implement a program addressing nutrition specifically to commuter students.

Try answering one or more of the following prompting questions in your submission:

  • What was the process of designing the program that will be discussed in the presentation?

  • What were the challenges faced in the design, implementation, or evaluation of the program?

  • What were the successes – both anticipated and unanticipated – of the program?

  • How could a very similar institution’s peer education group successfully replicate this program?

  • How could a very different institution’s peer education group adapt this program to be successful on their campus?

 

Current Trends and Emerging Issues in an Ever-Changing Global Environment

Presentations submitted under this category should be designed to raise awareness of and prepare peer educators and/or advisors for emerging trends and issues which may impact the delivery of peer education on campus. Presentations submitted under this category may explore how campuses are implementing initiatives that respond to the ever-changing campus and global environment.

  • Identify current and emerging issues impacting peer educators, groups, and/or advisors.

  • Discuss campus, community, and digital wellness trends that peer educators and/or advisors need to be aware of.

  • Highlight best practices for amplifying the voices and experiences of historically marginalized populations engaging in peer education work.

  • Identify changes and explore solutions in peer education group development, recruitment, and retention due to societal, cultural, and political climate.

Learning outcomes for presentations submitted to this category might include:

  • After attending this session, participants will be able to plan for changes in administrative funding while maintaining quality peer education efforts.

  • Participants attending this session will be able to define new state laws surrounding personal cannabis use for individuals over age 21.

  • Participants attending this session will discuss the role of personal identity in peer education work and be able to deliver peer education curricula surrounding racial identity.

Try answering one or more of the following prompting questions in your submission:

  • What is a specific emerging trend or issue that peer educators and advisors need to have more knowledge or awareness of?

  • Will campuses be making changes because of the new trend or issue? Why or why not?

  • How will participants attending this session continue to develop understanding on the topic after this session is completed?

  • How will the new or emerging trend or issue impact the delivery of peer education?

  • What are the issues that peer education groups are facing?

  • What specific skills or capacities would a participant to this session be prepared to use to help their peer education group succeed?

 

Take My Show on Your Road!

Are you a programming innvoator? Do you have an evidence-based program, collaboration, or intervention that you want to share with colleagues and other campuses? 

In the spirit of sharing what works, the 2025 Strategies Conferences Planning Committees invite you to participate in Take My Show on Your Road! 

In this interactive programming showcase, institutions are encouraged to share, through table display and take-home resources, effective strategies to address campus-based health, safety, well-being and peer education programming. Sign up today via the form linked here.  

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Peer Education Awards

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Every year, the Peer Education Initiatives, a part of the Health, Safety, and Well-being Initiatives of NASPA and carrying forward the legacy of BACCHUS, proudly recognizes outstanding achievements in peer education.

These awards honor peer educators, their advisors, peer education groups, and programs that exemplify the innovative spirit and commitment to student well-being that BACCHUS pioneered. Award finalists will be featured and winners will be announced during the award ceremony taking place at the BACCHUS Legacy: Celebrating 50 Years of Peer Education extended session on Friday, January 17, from 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM. To see past winners, click here

 
 
 

 

  • Outstanding Peer Education Group Award - This award recognizes peer education groups that have done exceptional work on their campuses. Awards will be granted to peer education groups that have consistently provided health, safety, and well-being education for students on their campuses in the past year.
  • Outstanding Advisor Award - This award recognizes peer education advisors' commitment to peer education efforts, unique talents as a peer education advisor, leadership ability, and presence as a positive role model for peer educators.
  • Outstanding Peer Education Program Award - This award recognizes creativity and overall effectiveness in campus awareness and education. Selected programs will represent the diversity of health, safety, and well-being topics. Programs must have occurred in the 2024 calendar year. You are free to discuss the number of attendees in your application, but please note that high attendance is not as important as the creativity and overall effectiveness of the program.
  • Outstanding Peer Educator Award - This award recognizes students’ contributions to campus peer education efforts, academic successes, and leadership.
 

2024 Peer Education Award Finalists

Outstanding Peer Education Group Award
  • Peer Advisory Council on Title IX (PACT) – Stetson University
  • Promotors of Wellness (POW) – University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Triton2Triton – University of California San Diego
  • Vols2Vols Peer Health Educators – University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Outstanding Peer Education Advisor Award
  • Anthony Turon – Seton Hall University
  • Ashlynn Malone – University of Tennessee - Knoxville
  • Erika Marshall – Suffolk University
  • Leslie Haxby McNeill – Miami University-Ohio
  • Richard Martinez – San Juan College
  • Theresa Tantay-Wilson – Rutgers University-Newark
Outstanding Peer Education Program Award
  • Being NOBULL: Putting bystander intervention into action – University at Buffalo
  • Conquering College – John Carroll University
  • Game Day Ready – Florida Atlantic University
  • Masculinity is What YOU Make It Campaign – Stetson University
Outstanding Peer Educator Award
  • Ava Pappalardo – The University of Scranton
  • Elizabeth Curl – University of West Florida
  • Rafeya Rahman – Rutgers University–Newark
  • Sarah Watson – Ashland University

 

Congratulations to the individuals and institutions who have been recognized for their excellent work! 

BACCHUS Scholarship Application

BACCHUS emerged in 1975, creating a pioneering peer education model focused on alcohol consciousness for university students. In 2014, BACCHUS joined NASPA, continuing to empower peer education groups and broadening it’s commitment to peer education through high-impact, evidence-based learning.

Today, Peer Education Initiatives at NASPA continues to carry the mission of BACCHUS, which revolutionized student affairs, emphasizing collaboration and proactive health promotion, leaving a lasting legacy as a successful model for peer education programs.

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It is with this spirit and the generous support from members, friends, staff & alumni, that the BACCHUS Scholarship continues to fund attendance to the NASPA Peer Education Conference (formerly General Assembly) by covering the cost of registration. Peer educators from NASPA Institutional member campuses are eligible to apply. Click HERE to apply. 

The Priority Application Date has passed, but applications are still being reviewed on a rolling basis and awarded based on remaining scholarship funds. Selection criteria is based upon a submitted application and letter of support from a peer education advisor. The intention of these funds are to support students who are unable to cover the cost associated with conference attendance.