The Speakers Bureau gives students an opportunity to gain public speaking and group facilitation skills. Students learn to present health information from a positive, pro-active perspective that empowers their peers in making and sustaining healthy choices. Staff from the Student Health Services and Prevention and Wellness Services provide the HIV Peer Counselors with professional training and supervision. This program offers students an opportunity to gain skills in peer counseling and consultation, HIV risk reduction, boundary setting, and the art of referral. Social Marketing and Outreach Project Social Marketers creatively promote heathy lifestyle choices on Western's campus.
Social marketers create and develop innovative outreach and educational materials.
Becoming a Social Marketer is a great way to gain skills and develop creativity in commercial marketing techniques, graphic design, public relations, communication, journalism, and marketing for socially relevant objectives. I think being an LA made me more accepting toward all people and their choices.