Transforming and enterprising peer leaders into behavior change entrepreneurs who are able to become role models and facilitate behavior change in a way that is fun, exciting and income generating and able to cause ripples of change that transfers positive change, leadership, and passion to the...
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Transforming and enterprising peer leaders into behavior change entrepreneurs who are able to become role models and facilitate behavior change in a way that is fun, exciting and income generating and able to cause ripples of change that transfers positive change, leadership, and passion to the successor generation of at-risk youth.
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The PEERS.Network is an informal support group of two of the most marginalized and underserved HIV key populations in the Philippines, the sex workers and injecting drug users particularly those in their youthful years.

The network under the guidance of the Kabataang Gabay sa...
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The PEERS.Network is an informal support group of two of the most marginalized and underserved HIV key populations in the Philippines, the sex workers and injecting drug users particularly those in their youthful years.

The network under the guidance of the Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumhay is currently leading the "My Peers, My Responsibility: A Behavior Change Entrepreneurship Initiative.

The initiative uses the Yearn, Learn and Earn through Peer Entrepreneurship or YouthLEAP Framework for its implementation and has the following behavior change competency-building activities:

1. Membership-building - Members of the network are successful peer leaders who had served their communities as peer outreach workers (peer recruiters, educators, counselors), have completed 40 hours behavior change communication training or equivalent, served 240 hours of community outreach and peer education and reached at least 100 peers in his/her lifetime. A facebook group that host river-of-life portfolios, stories of change an on-line sharing, learning & linking is facilitated by an learning facilitator

2. Behavior Change Facilitation - through the "My Change Journey", community groups are engaged in dream-building sessions, river-of-life workshops and "I Journal" retreats. The activities are facilitated periodically all-year-round to generate a River-of-Life portfolios consist of 4 river-of-life outputs per year per individual, per peer group and per cluster. The outputs are shared annually during a knowledge fair that showcase the progress of behavior change among youth to key stakeholders valuable for policy development, funding, and support.

3. Peer Entrepreneurship - using the YoutLEAP Framework, peer groups are are ventured to co-own and operate a MyPEERS.net social business units right in their own communities aimed to address their poverty, illiteracy and exploitation through economically gainful therapeutic activities that earn. Earnings go to their daily subsistence, training, social benefits and financing to sustain change efforts in their communities.

*** The YouthLEAP Framework, a Philippine UNGASS 2010 Report Good Practice: http://www.unaids.org/en/dataanalysis/monitoringcountryprogress/2010progressreportssubmittedbycountries/philippines_2010_country_progress_report_en.pdf
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Develop Business Plans for Peer Entrepreneurs

This business plan leads the way to operationalize the YouthLEAP framework through the organization’s PEER.net Venture and MyPEERS.net social business units. The venture reinvigorates KGPP’s vision and mission toward transforming the...
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Develop Business Plans for Peer Entrepreneurs

This business plan leads the way to operationalize the YouthLEAP framework through the organization’s PEER.net Venture and MyPEERS.net social business units. The venture reinvigorates KGPP’s vision and mission toward transforming the peer leaders into entrepreneurs and their peer groups into ventures who will operate a social business that they co-own and operate to a point that it financially sustains itself from internally-generated cash flow.

MyPEERS.net unlocks the potential of the increasing popularity of the internet in strengthening youth’s engagement in sustainable livelihood. At MYPEERS.net Cybercafé, we provide affordable, accessible, youth-friendly, 24-hour internet access and gaming for young enthusiast and one-stop IT and business solutions for students and young professionals. Unlike ordinary internet shops, our costumers learn our advocacy efforts while patronizing our services which in turn expand our network of socially-conscious internet users toward a safer cyber environment for the youth and the general public. Uniquely, we bring the possibility that internet cafés can be an engine in generating financial and social returns that any vulnerable peer-group can operate right in their own communities.
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