1.   As Chancellor Rudy Crew tries to raise the standards of students throughout the city, the need for the peer intervention program underlines the difficulty of his task.

2.   Eight months after their first couples-counseling session with the senior peer counseling program at Glendale Memorial Hospital, the two are no longer sniping and griping.

3.   He organized a peer mediation program during his sophomore year, because he saw verbal harassment escalating into shoving and punching.

4.   He volunteers in the Stroke Outreach peer education program, sponsored by several hospitals and health centers.

5.   In Franklin, the school district uses a peer mediation program to resolve bullying and other conflicts between students.

6.   Peer counseling programs, in which officials encourage students to talk out their problems instead of shooting them out, can be an effective tool for avoiding violence.

7.   Peer leadership programs inspire students to tutor younger ones.

8.   Reseda High School in the Valley uses a peer counseling program, encouraging students to help other students.

9.   Snyder also is active in the peer education program, regularly visiting stroke patients at Joan Glancy Memorial Hospital in Duluth.

10.   Some schools have a peer tutoring program, which matches students with kids close to their own age.