🏅 Certified Peer Educator (CPE) Badge

Certified Peer Educator (CPE)
Offered in partnership with NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

📖 What This Badge Represents

The Certified Peer Educator (CPE) badge recognizes your successful completion of a nationally recognized training program that prepares you to serve as an empowered peer mentor and educator.

This program, developed by NASPA, provides foundational skills that help you support your peers through communication, leadership, inclusivity, behavior change, and student engagement strategies.

📚 Courses & Activities

You will complete all eight modules of the training:

Understanding the Power, Roles, and Characteristics of Peer Educators
Understanding Change as a Peer Educator
Being an Effective Listener as a Peer Educator
A Peer Educator’s Role as a Responder
Bystander Intervention as a Peer Education Technique
Intrapersonal Applications of Identity as a Peer Educator
Programming Strategies for Peer Educators
Group Development and Moving Forward

🎯 Learning Objectives

By completing this program, you will:

Understand the role and influence of peer educators
Apply strategies to facilitate behavior change
Develop strong active listening and empathy skills
Demonstrate appropriate response and referral practices
Promote safe and inclusive environments through bystander intervention
Recognize and apply identity-awareness in your peer education role
Create and implement effective peer education programs
Understand team dynamics and contribute to group development

✅ Badge Criteria

To earn this badge, you must:

Complete all seven modules of the CPE training
Actively participate in workshops, discussions, and assignments
Demonstrate understanding through reflections and applied activities