Sentence examples for peer adviser from inspiring English sources

At Princeton University, where I am a junior, victims of sexual assault are encouraged to seek support from a Share (Sexual harassment/assault advising, resources, and education) peer adviser.

Bentley, for example, pairs accepted students with an international peer adviser who helps them throughout the summer before freshman year, before they step foot on campus.

"My mom wanted to know why I needed to know so much about this now," said Michaela Fortin, 21, who is a senior peer adviser.

Although Ms. Duncan helps many women through her work as a peer adviser, called big sisters at the women's residence, she sometimes still needs help herself.

My college peer adviser, Tameika Timmons, still checks up on me to see how it's going with the college process, which helps me focus on what still needs to be done before I graduate.

And she has training, having worked as senior peer adviser at her alma mater, Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., as part of the college's personal finance training program, which every student must complete.

"Assemble a personal board of peer advisers, where each of you gives advice to the others about moving forward," Mr. Corbett says.

The use of peer advisers as lay educators could complement services provided by specialist health professionals.

Patients in the PADs group stated that they were happy to be taught by peer advisers.

However, it is relevant to stress that such further training would have to be tailored to the specific programme in which peer advisers would be expected to participate.

Adults with diabetes were randomly allocated to an education programme delivered either by trained peer advisers or by specialist health professionals.