Peer Help Groups: Purposes

Monday, September 05, 2005

Purposes

After that last post, I thought it might be helpful for you to know what Peer Help Groups is and what these websites are supposed to do. You see, http://www.ldsteenhelp.com started in about '98 and has changed a lot since the beginning. It used to be a website for LDS teens to write in and a group of other LDS teens would email them back and encourage them to do what's right and talk to the people they should be speaking with, like an ecclesiastical leader, in order to work out any problems. Since then, the website expanded into other websites, including one for college age young adults and another one specifically for those preparing for LDS missions. While the three sites were different, they still served the same purpose. It came to our (I say our because I don't work on this alone) attention that the same issues kept coming up again and again. So we began to compile information and place under a section called Resources. Then we thought that if individuals had a place to keep track of the things they were working on, it might help them to progress. Well, eventually we came to what we have now. Four programs that, when used correctly, have helped a lot of people keep track of their progress and find support from others who are or have experienced the same kind of problems. The site is nowhere near complete. Some things that we are working on now are giving those in the goal program the ability to see their past progress rather than just current, a new group of mentors in order to meet the high demand of those requesting mentorship and providing those members with access to necessary information, having a mentor in every recovery group to help facilitate discussion and a few other things. We are also beginning to compile helpful strategies from everyone using the site and do some research of our own on what techniques work best. There is a lot that we would like to do and are working on being able to do that.

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