Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.23
Liaison Jody Jones
Submission Date March 18, 2024

STARS v2.2

Mount Royal University
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.55 / 4.00 Jorden Dye
Program Admin
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Part 1. Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Number of students enrolled for credit:
15,728

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
15,728

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

1st program

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
Peer Health Educators

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):

There are 16 Peer to Peer health educators that host activities and initiatives on campus to raise awareness about all aspects of health for university students. This includes a range of topics such as financial literacy, binge drinking, drug usage and sleep deprivation. Other important topics they discuss is how to build and maintain healthy relationships and building a healthy life style.


A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):

Current and future students of all Mount Royal University programs.


Number of trained student educators (1st program):
16

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):
48

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (1st program):
2

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):
1,536

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (1st program):

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2nd program

Name of the student educators program (2nd program):
Peer to Peer Mental Health Educators

A brief description of the student educators program (2nd program):
The Peer 2 Peer Mental Health program is the same as the Peer Health Education Program but instead the group focuses on topics such as grief, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, etc. 

 


 


 

 

 

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):

The P2PMHE program has volunteer students who do health promotion and education to their peers and work to decrease stigma on campus around mental health. Their target audience is students.


Number of trained student educators (2nd program):
20

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (2nd program):
23

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (2nd program):
5

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (2nd program):
2,300

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (2nd program):

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3rd program 

Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
Stepping UP Program

A brief description of the student educators program (3rd program):


Stepping Up is a relationship violence prevention program intended to teach the MRU campus community about engaging in healthy relationships and recognizing the signs of unhealthy and abusive relationships. Mount Royal University recognizes the impact of gender-based violence on  the campus community and as a result has established the Stepping Up program.







 “Campus sexual violence (CSV) robs students of an environment to safely and confidently pursue educational endeavours and enriching experiences. Many survivors have to contend with the unacceptable disruption it causes, in addition to the adverse impact on their academic performance and physical and mental well-being. While experiences of sexual violence happen at an individual level, the problem is systemic.”


Council of Alberta University Students (2020)






Stepping Up uses peer-to-peer facilitation to connect students through a learning experience. Through the program, they explore topics of healthy relationships, unhealthy relationships, abuse, media, and sexual violence. As a participant, students are given a safe environment to increase their education on relationship violence by engaging in discourse with their peers through meaningful workshops. As a peer facilitator, Stepping Up, provides the opportunity for students to be actively engaged in the advocacy against gender-based violence.


A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):

Target audience for this program is current students


Number of trained student educators (3rd program):
15

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (3rd program):
34

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (3rd program):
1

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (3rd program):
510

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (3rd program):

Additional programs 

A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained student educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the student educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per student educator (all other programs) :
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (all other programs):
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Part 2. Educator hours per student served by a peer-to-peer educator program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators (all programs):
4,346

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.28

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the student sustainability educators programs is available:
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