BUILD A SOCIAL LIFE THAT WORKS FOR YOU

Evidence-Based Skills for Teens and Young Adults

BUILD A SOCIAL LIFE THAT WORKS FOR YOU

Evidence-Based Skills for Teens and Young Adults

Our clinic is rare:

We do not remove lessons, skip practice opportunities, or leave out any other important parts of the PEERS® program, like many other clinics do. Our clinic follows the PEERS® model as it was carefully designed and researched over the past 20 years at UCLA – no cutting corners – to make sure your family receives the full benefits of PEERS®. Our team is sincerely passionate about this program, we are all certified through UCLA to facilitate PEERS® groups, and we are dedicated to providing effective services in good faith.

Many social skills groups have little-to-no evidence they even work. PEERS® is the gold standard of evidence-based social skills programs, and our clinic is one of the very few that runs PEERS® groups the way they were intended.

We make sure our programs are accessible, engaging, and effective.

The Gold Standard for Social Skills

In-person and Virtual - Both Work

With over 20 years of research through UCLA, PEERS® is the gold standard for social skills. Research through UCLA also shows you can attend PEERS® classes either in-person or online with equivalent results (source). Whether online or in-person, PEERS® is proven to help you build a social life outside of our group in the real world. Group members who attend virtual PEERS® groups are able to learn the skills and use them in the real world just as well as group members who attend in-person.

Learn how PEERS® works and how it can help below:

Evidence-Based Social Skills:

For over 20 years, PEERS® (Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills) has been rigorously researched and developed at UCLA. PEERS® groups are focused on helping you build your own social life in the real world. In one group, teens and young adults learn and practice social skills together; in a separate group, parents & caregivers learn how to support them effectively.

These skills work in the real world. The social skills taught in PEERS® are "ecologically valid," which is a research term meaning you will learn skills that come from the real world and have been proven to work in the real world. In order to figure out what skills to teach, researchers observed real interactions between real people. Then, researchers tested these skills in the real world again to make sure they work. These skills are "tried and true," and they remain useful throughout adulthood.

The more time and energy you put into PEERS®, the more your social skills and your social life will improve – that's the main message the research tells us. In this way, social skills are just like other skills - cooking, juggling, playing a sport, video game or musical instrument - the more you learn and practice, the better you get. Every week in PEERS®, group members learn and practice new skills with the support of our facilitators. From there, weekly assignments help guide group members with practicing skills at home and using them in the real world.

Parent & Caregiver Support

While the teens and young adults are meeting, parents and caregivers will also meet in their own separate group. Every teen or young adult who joins PEERS® will also have a parent or caregiver join as their "social coach." Each week, social coaches will learn the same material as their teens and young adults and receive guidance on how to support their teen or young adult through PEERS®. Social coaches practice skills at home together with their teen or young adult, help them understand what they're doing well and what to work on, and support them with planning and strategizing about how to apply these skills successfully in their everyday lives.

Passionate, Qualified Facilitators

Group members will also receive extensive guidance, support, and feedback from our passionate, qualified team of facilitators. Typical student-teacher ratios for our groups are roughly 1:3 or 1:4. All facilitators are fully trained and certified in the facilitation of PEERS® programs through the Semel Institute at UCLA.

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BUILD A SOCIAL LIFE THAT WORKS FOR YOU

BUILD A SOCIAL LIFE THAT WORKS FOR YOU

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CAUTION: Groups sold as "PEERS®" may be misleading!

CAUTION: Groups sold as "PEERS®" may be misleading!

CAUTION: Groups sold as "PEERS®" may be misleading!

CAUTION: Groups sold as "PEERS®" may be misleading!

CAUTION: Groups sold as "PEERS®" may be misleading!

Our clinic is rare:

The Gold Standard for Social Skills

In-person and Virtual - Both Work

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How PEERS® Works

Evidence-Based Social Skills:

Parent & Caregiver Support

Passionate, Qualified Facilitators

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