Peer-to-Peer Prevention
Adults talk at teens. Peers talk with them.
Peer-to-Peer Prevention is United Against Use's flagship workshop program, a series of honest, student-led conversations on substance use built to actually land with the people they're for. Because the science is clearer when it comes from someone your own age. To date, we've delivered 11 workshops, reached over 100 students, and partnered with the Dallas Police Department to bring the program to youth across the city, both in-person and online.
The Workshop Program
Every workshop is designed and led by high school and college peer facilitators who cover the science of addiction, real refusal skills, the reality of fentanyl and vaping, and how to show up for a friend in crisis. The content is built to be conversational, not lectured, so students actually engage with the material.
In partnership with the Dallas Police Department and its Junior Explorers program, we meet students in classrooms, youth programs, and community rooms across Dallas. Those sessions put officers, prevention educators, and peer leaders in the same room as the students they serve, turning what's usually a lecture into a real conversation.
Not every student can make it to a classroom on a Wednesday night, so we bring the workshop to them. Our online sessions run the same peer-led curriculum, live over video, and are open to students anywhere in the country. Topics rotate through the same core material as our in-person program: signs of intoxication, the science of addiction, fentanyl awareness, and how to help a friend, with time for live Q&A.
The result is a conversation students actually want to be in: real questions, real answers, and prevention information delivered by people who have earned the right to be heard.
Bring a workshop
to your school or program
Whether you're a student, educator, parent, or community partner, you can bring a peer-to-peer prevention workshop, in person or online, to the young people you serve.