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Student Health Allies and Peer Educators (SHAPE) Competencies

Although peer education is widely utilized as a health promotion method on campuses, the appropriate competency training of peer educators remains inadequate. At Marquette University, peer support for student-athletes is offered through the Athletic department’s Student Health Allies & Peer Educators (SHAPE) program. Our project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of SHAPE competency training by measuring peer support ability and how that support affects the well-being of student-athletes. This was a multidisciplinary collaboration between Athletics, Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, and Computer Science that provided SHAPE competency training and monitored the well-being of student-athletes through web applications.