Peer EDU Certification

The Health EDU Peer Educator Certification prepares students to teach our curriculum with both content mastery and strong facilitation skills. Because SRH topics are often stigmatized, certification goes beyond knowing the material — peer educators practice specific techniques for facilitating hard conversations before they ever lead a real session.

There are two pathways, depending on your background:

Meant for high school MARSH fellows
Meant for undergraduate students prior to teaching at their chapters
Open to graduate students if desiring more practice

Meant for high school students who have not participated in the MARSH Fellowship
Open to anyone (even MARSH fellows) if desiring more practice

COMING SOON

Pathway 1: Bootcamp

Covers full curriculum content plus facilitation skills from the ground up.

Format: Zoom (live cohort) or in-person (regional intensive, when available)
Timing: 4 sessions, 2 hours each + final assessment (mock teaching session) over 2 weeks
Structure:
1. Curriculum content walkthrough (all modules)
2. Facilitation skills training (see exercises below)
3. Mock teaching session with feedback from certified peer educators and Health EDU exec

Registration Coming Soon

Pathway 2: Modified Bootcamp

This training is focused on building Facilitator skills, rather than learning actual curriculum content.

Format: Zoom (live cohort) or in-person (regional intensive, when available)
Timing: 1 session, 2 hours + final assessment (mock teaching session)
Structure:
1. Brief content refresher and knowledge quiz
2. Facilitation skills training (see exercises below)
3. Mock teaching session with feedback from certified peer educators and Health EDU exec

Registration Coming Soon

Facilitation Skills Practice

Facilitating stigmatized content is a skill on its own, separate from knowing the material. Exercises include:

Hot-seat Q&A drills — practice fielding unexpected or awkward student questions in real time
Role-play scenarios — practicing responses to disclosures, pushback, or a student who shuts down
Fishbowl exercise — one trainee facilitates while others observe and give structured feedback
Values-neutral language practice — reframing judgmental or biased phrasing into inclusive, non-stigmatizing language
Silence & discomfort tolerance — practicing sitting with an awkward pause instead of rushing to fill it
Mandated reporting boundary drill — practicing what to say (and not say) if a disclosure crosses into reportable territory
Mock-teach with feedback — trainee runs a real segment of curriculum in front of peers/exec, gets structured feedback before certifying

How You Earn Certification

1) Bootcamp

2) Content Mastery

3) Feedback

Participate in an interactive training session focused on inclusive group facilitation and engaging presentation techniques.

Deepen your knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Health topics to ensure accurate and objective presentation in every session.

Receive direct guidance and session feedback from experienced Health EDU executive leaders and MARSH fellows.

Earn your certificate! Begin leading structured monthly Health EDU workshops across your local school or chapter.

Contact

marsh@healthedu.org