The Spring Hill High School PALS program is a peer helping
programs in which students are selected by their peers and trained to
serve as peer helpers with their peers.
The curriculum used for training is from PAL® Peer Assistance
and Leadership, an award-winning, Nationally Recognized Evidence-Based
Prevention Program owned and operated by the non-profit organization,
Workers Assistance Program, Inc. (WAP). http://palusa.org/
The mission of the PAL® Peer Assistance and Leadership program
is to enable young people to use their potential to make a difference in
their lives, schools and communities.
This curriculum must be implemented by an adult who has been
trained and certified through PAL® in order to keep fidelity to the
curriculum. The curriculum is taught to PALS students at a 3 day/2 night
retreat in the fall of each school year.
PAL® students learn to adapt the power of peer pressure to
influence others positively and, ultimately, they make a difference in
the lives of others! Positive peer influence is utilized as a central
strategy for addressing issues like bullying, low achievement, at-risk
youth, drop-out prevention, substance abuse prevention, teen pregnancy,
suicide, absenteeism, behavior problems, and other community issues.