ENITY is a unique partnership between Public Health and the School District which involves peer educators - grade nine, ten, eleven, twelve students, teaching classes in middle and secondary that focus on health and relationship issues. 

Students for ENITY are selected from our secondary schools based on student interest, leadership skills, and their desire to be a peer educator. Planning, preparing activities, and training the selected educators is done by a public health nurse who then accompanies the students into grade six to ten classes as part of their Health and Career Education courses.  

Interactive lessons are conducted by the peer educators focusing on sensitive health and relationship topics that schools have identified as areas students need on-going education and accurate, reliable information by knowledgeable presenters. These sessions also provide a forum where students can ask questions in a safe environment and peer leaders can answer or speak from their own experiences. Topics taught are from the Health and Career Education curriculum:

Grade Six – Puberty, social changes in middle schools, responsible decision making

Grade Seven – Alcohol and other substance use and abuse, responsible decision making

Grade Eight – Steps to physical intimacy, accurate information regarding sex, where, who to contact to find correct information, responsible decision making

Grade Nine – Health Fair: many community agencies participate and their booths cover topics such as birth control, safety, drinking and driving, relational issues, substance use and abuse, tobacco facts and reduction, eating disorders and other health topics.