Peer Counselors/Mediators do the following:

• Faciliate trust, openness, comfort, apathy
• Accept people as they are
• Listen, clarify, help people see alternatives for decision making
• Give support and encouragement to take positive action
• Validate people without being fake
• Respect privacy
• Realize that not all problems can be solved and not all people want to be helped
• Work with people who have normal develpmental, "growing up," problems
• Refer troubled students to a professional person or counselor