A program by ThriveWay adopted by Grant Halliburton Foundation
Peer Helpers PLUS helps students make healthy choices, resolve conflicts, and build positive relationships. Grant Halliburton Foundation brings this suicide prevention and peer support program to schools through prevention education, student leadership, and adult guidance.
Program Overview
Prevention education gives every student practical life skills. Peer support prepares student leaders to offer encouragement and help classmates connect with trusted adults.
Prevention & Awareness for Total Health
Schoolwide, grade-level prevention education helps students build resilience and develop the character traits and life skills to navigate everyday challenges.
Connection, encouragement, and early support
An eclectic group of students learns a core set of skills to recognize concerns, communicate supportively, and assist classmates who may be struggling.
Student Support
Students often turn to one another when they need help. Peer-to-peer training gives them the skills to notice concerns, respond with care, and connect a classmate with an adult who can help.
Peer Helpers offer encouragement through tutoring, mentoring, mediation, and advocacy. They also welcome students who are new to a school or community.
FIVE CORE TRAINING MODULES
Getting Started
Offer Peer Helpers as a club or elective course. Our team can help you plan for your students, staff, and school community.
Talk With Our Team
Discuss your goals, grade levels, staffing, and program needs.
Training helps the adults leading the program get ready to guide and support student Peer Helpers. It also prepares them to implement the P.A.T.H. curriculum in classrooms.
Build your student team and introduce prevention education and peer support on campus.
Use coaching, program resources, and data to track progress and support your school’s work.
Evidence
Watch school leaders share their experiences with Peer Helpers PLUS.
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FAQs
Start with the basics, then connect with our team to talk through your school’s goals and next steps.
P.A.T.H. provides prevention education for all students in grades K–12, while Peer Helpers reinforce these lessons through encouragement and support with everyday challenges, serving as tutors, mentors, mediators, and advocates for their peers. Both components are included in one program, with portal access and coaching.
Lessons typically take 20–30 minutes and include scripts, videos, activities, handouts, educator overviews, and parent letters. They are designed for educators across campus, without requiring a mental health credential.
Training focuses on connecting, listening, understanding, coping, and referring. Peer Helpers learn to recognize concerns, offer encouragement, and know when adult support is needed.
Yes. Peer Helpers PLUS can be implemented as a club or elective course. Our team can help you consider the format, staffing, and program approach for your campus.
School staff train as program coordinators to guide student Peer Helpers and implement the P.A.T.H. curriculum. School leaders and administrators train to support program planning and empower their coordinators to lead implementation on campus. We can help you plan for staffing and training before launch.
ThriveWay’s portal provides curriculum, activity logs, and reports to help schools track progress. A designated program coach offers ongoing guidance. The Foundation helps schools plan, prepare coordinators, and launch locally.
Program access uses an annual subscription per school. Share your campus needs through our interest form, and we’ll discuss implementation, training, and costs for your school or district.
Ask About Your School
Give your students a day to explore big ideas, make new connections, and build confidence in supporting one another. Texas-Sized Hope returns for the sixth annual Youth Peer-to-Peer Mental Health Conference, with separate days for high school students in grades 9-12 and middle school students in grades 6-8.
Explore the ConferenceTell us about your campus and what you hope to build. Our team will help you explore how prevention education and peer support can work in your school community.