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Peer Advocates for Campus Education

This student organization provides information, programs, and campus-wide speakers to help students make informed decisions about their lives. Through educating peers about choices and consequences, this group seeks to improve the health and safety of the LC student community.

What do we do?

  • The Hornet Showdown
  • Alcohol Awareness Week
  • Great American Smokeout
  • Sexual Responsibility Week
  • Safe Spring Break Promise
  • Kick Butts Day

Residence hall programs! 

  • One Size Doesn't Fit All (gender and alcohol)
  • Pot and Popcorn (marijuana and other drugs)
  • Run for Your Life (fitness and nutrition)
  • Sexual Feud: The Battle Is On (sexual health)
  • Better Sex in 15 Minutes (sexual health and responsibility)

Are you a good leader? A positive role model? A natural helper? Are you trustworthy? Responsible? Non-judgmental? Do you have good listening skills? Then YOU may qualify to be a peer educator!

What's in it for you?

  • Leadership skills
  • Professional training (become a nationally Certified Peer Educator)
  • Building credentials and marketability
  • Teaching/presenting skills
  • Opportunity to meet new friends
  • Respect as a positive role model
  • Enjoy great national and regional conferences
  • Opportunity to make a difference in the lives of friends

PACE is an affiliate of The BACCHUS Network (www.bacchusnetwork.org)
More than 30,000 students around the world are involved as affiliates of this peer education network!

The BACCHUS Network is an international association of college and university-based peer education programs. It is the mission of The BACCHUS Network to actively promote student-based, campus-wide leadership on healthy and safe lifestyle decisions concerning alcohol abuse, tobacco use, illegal drug use, unhealthy sexual practices, and other high-risk behaviors. The BACCHUS Network believes that peers can play a uniquely effective role -- unmatched by professional educators -- in encouraging their friends to consider, talk honestly about, and develop responsible habits and attitudes toward high-risk health and safety issues.

For more information about joining PACE, contact:
Beth Curry, Coordinator of Wellness Education
x8164 or curry@lynchburg.edu