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To give teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in low-income public high schools that lack health education.
Peer health Exchange (PHE) college student volunteers teach students in low-income public high schools a set of 12 standardized health workshops on topics ranging from decision making and sexual health to substance abuse and nutrition.
- Grew annual revenues by 63 percent from $462,000 in FY2006 to $752,000 in FY2007, and increased lives touched (students served) by 131 percent, from 779 in 2005-06 to 1,800 in 2006-07.
- Completed first full program year in Boston with 175 college volunteers reaching 1,400 ninth graders, and launched a new site in Chicago in partnership with the University of Chicago and Northwestern.
- Completed five-year strategic plan calling for deepening impact in existing sites to five new city sites, and the creation of regional hubs to build a strong base for future growth.
- In FY2007, PHE students experienced a 20 percent increase in health knowledge from pre- to post-test, using a survey tool designed by Philliber Research Associates; 89 percent of high school students said they will use something they learned from PHE to make a healthy decision in the future, and 55 percent said they already made a healthy decision with something they learned from PHE.
- PHE reached 10 percent of Boston Public High School ninth graders in FY2007 and is on track to reach 25 percent in FY2008, an important milestone in understanding the impact of PHE can have at scale in an individual city.
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By 2012, PHE plans to serve more than 35,000 ninth grade students annually, including the great majority of ninth graders in the Boston Public School system.
Total Funding from New Profit to Date: $100,000
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