What Is Gorillas In Your Midst
We are a Peer Health Education group interested in reaching our peers concerning various social issues through interactive skits, performances and presentations in order to help them make healthier, more informed decisions. We have produced a variety of programming on such topics as:

• Drug and Alcohol Abuse
• Rape, Acquaintance/Date Rape, and Sexual Assault
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS
• Eating Disorders
• Contraception and Unexpected Pregnancy
• Suicide
• Depression
• Stress Management

These programs are provided to PSU student groups and local schools to help them become better informed to make healthier decision in their own lives and to assist in the lives of others around them. We provide our services without charge, but gladly accept donations.

Why Peer Education
It is our belief that peer education is an effective instrument in which one may deliver information to a target audience, since the messenger is more like them in lifestyle and circumstances. In other words, you are more likely to listen to someone you identify with than someone who is going to lecture you.

What To Expect
Our programs are highly versatile and adaptive, giving us the opportunity to cater our message to our target audience. We use a variety of formats to accomplish this, including skits, individual vignettes, games, guided discussions, informal presentations, songs, and dramatizations. Most of our programs can be done in one hour, and consists of a warm-up activity, a brief introduction, the performance itself, a question and answer time, de-rolling, and closure. We only ask that you give us at least two weeks notice to prepare for your program. A sound system is requested as well, but not necessary for our presentation for your school or group.

Please contact J.T. Knoll at 620-235-4062 or by email at jknoll@pittstate.edu for more information.