Some of the criteria that the young people apply include popularity, enthusiasm, trustworthiness, and ability to keep secrets. Usually they respect, trust, and support the peer educators whom they have selected. Adult staff and PTA members are also involved in reviewing and agreeing to me the people they nominate. Stories, comic strips, posters, and pictures can be used for discussing various adolescent health issues including age of various adolescent sexual initiation, emotional development of boys and girls. Participants can suggest and discuss different statements about STD or about sexual development in adolescence and decide if they are true or not true.
Participants can make up role-plays in pairs about responding to pressure and negotiating safer sex.
Everyone should practice both roles, so that it is not always girls responding to pressure from young men. Telling stories and using pictures helps young, people link their actions with possible consequences. The peer educators ask questions to encourage discussion and local story telling traditions such as songs, rhymes and saying to reinforce the messages. Comics can be used to explore the real life issues of sexual relationships, friendships as peer educators and attitudes towards induced abortions etc. Training plans need to go beyond the initial training workshop.