I first became involved in the scheme by volunteering to be trained as a peer mentor by an outside company, Plymouth Mediation. Peer mentoring allows you to use your experience as an older pupil to give advice and support to younger Year 7 pupils, who could be experiencing the same problems that you did when you were their age.
As well as preparing you to support younger pupils, the peer mentoring training also gives young people the confidence to stand up in front of a group of people of any age to promote the scheme.
After training, I was chosen as head of peer mentoring and, shortly after this, I was announced as the runner-up in the 16 to 18 age group category of PeerLink's Peer Conflict Worker of the Year award, which was a fantastic honour.
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