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RE unveils peer-to-peer health program
Twenty-three juniors officially kicked off the school's new, student-led, peer-to-peer health education program on Oct. 13, providing classroom instruction to all of Ransom Everglades' ninth graders. The Health Information Project (HIP) is designed to empower students to take on the health issues of their generation.
The junior Peer Health Educators met with groups of freshmen during the advisory period to offer an overview of the HIP curriculum while informing them about how to find help with issues such as abuse, sex, drugs, depression, etc.
In the coming months, the junior leaders will talk to RE's freshmen about mental health; reproductive health; alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; relationships; good health; and nutrition, exercise and obesity.
Libby Meland '18 serves as the president of RE's HIP board, joined by board members Gilles Gouraige '18 and Cecilia Lopez-Jordan '18. Alberto Adatto has been assisting as faculty advisor. The following RE juniors make up the school's Peer Health Educator team:
Libby Meland – President
Austin Acosta
Ben Arriola
Jasper Beardslee
Noelle Burke
Casi Cobb
Ande Edmunds
Falyn Goldstein
Gilles Gouraige – Board
Rebecca Hadwen
Rhona He
Cecilia Lopez-Jordan – Board
Leo Menninger
Zach Miller
Ellie Moret
Paulina Pages
Jake Pearson
Fernando Perez-Hickman
Briana Pottinger
Noa Richard
Stella Sable
Lauren San Martin
Hannah Tacher
HIP, a Miami-based education non-profit founded in 2009 and currently in 45 Miami-Dade County high schools, will be working with more than 30,000 ninth-grade students during the 2016-17 school year. Ransom Everglades was one of only two private schools selected by the HIP organization for this year's program.
The HIP program provides training to the Peer Health Educators and faculty with the goal of making it comfortable and acceptable to talk about health issues.
The HIP program provides training to the Peer Health Educators and faculty with the goal of making it comfortable and acceptable to talk about health issues.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.