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Created in 1979 as a student-initiated response to a near-fatal student-on-student attack at San Francisco' Galileo High School, San Francisco Peer Resources creates just change in our schools and communities through the leadership of young people supporting, training, and advocating for each other.
Peer Resources define just change as action toward justice. They also envision a world where students are agents of liberatory change, and where schools are transformed into liberatory-learning institutions. They recognize young people as centered partners in social justice movements.
Peer Resources centers authentic leadership opportunities of those most historically systems-impacted, especially of Black and Indigenous young people, Latine and Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian (PIHN) young people, with particular inclusion of those who are trans, non-binary, and/or gender expansive, those who are English Language Learners (ELL)/Emergent Multilingual Learners (EML), and those with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).
For almost 50 years, Peer Resources has continued to focus on strengthening youth power from the classroom and beyond. Peer Leaders give youth the tools they need to help their peers with skills like conflict resolution and schoolwork. Peer Leaders reach about a third of the entire San Francisco public school population, administering about 300 peer meditations for almost 500 students across the city.
There are about 40 Peer Resources academic school-day classes across 13 San Francisco public K-8, middle and high schools, and the Educator Pathway Program prepares young adults for a career in education or school counseling.
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