Health Education, Peer-to-Peer, High School Students – Valerie Berrin

Episode 13
Guest: Valerie Berrin
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW

Valerie Berrin, Co-Founder and Director of Operations of the Health Information Project (HIP) in Miami, shares how this peer-to-peer health education model brings ninth graders together to learn from each other across 58 Miami-Dade County high schools—reaching 34,000 students in a single school year. She discusses how HIP partnered with both public and private schools to scale its impact, and reflects on the personal and professional experiences that led her and her sister to create the organization.

In this episode:

• How HIP's peer-to-peer health education model works and why it's effective
• How HIP expanded to 58 high schools across Miami-Dade County, serving 34,000 ninth graders
• How the organization built partnerships with both public and private school districts
• The personal and professional story behind how Valerie and her sister founded HIP

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