Peer supporters are typically close in age with the young people they work with. They use their own lived experiences as touchpoints for topics such as mental health, identity development, and navigating the transition from teenage years to adulthood in order to relate and engage with the youth they are connected to. In your work together, you the Peer supporters will help the youth to identify goals and advocate for themselves.

NHPC will also provide spaces for mentoring to occur both in the physical space of our center as well as virtually with online meeting spaces and group activities such as video games and collaborative projects; providing these spaces allows us to facilitate more and easier connections between youth and mentors. 

Our Peer Support Network mentors all go through a training process which involves a background check, CPR/first aid training, Human Trafficking prevention education, and an in-house training covering all aspects of the program. Each of these must be completed in order to begin mentorship.