TY - JOUR AU - Emily Owusu-Ansah, Frances AU - Ofosuhene S. Peasah, Bernice AU - De-Graft Adjei, Victoria AU - Jantuah, Stephen AU - Hackman, Joana PY - 2021/09/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Challenging and Changing Lives: The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counseling Program, a Model for Tertiary Institutions JF - International Journal of Technology and Management Research JA - IJTMR VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.47127/ijtmr.v6i2.127 UR - https://ijtmr.ktu.edu.gh/index.php/ijtmr/article/view/127 SP - 73-80 AB - This paper is about the KNUST Peer Counsellors Program (KPC); an initiative of the KNUST Counselling Center (KCC). Over the years, the number of Peer Counsellors has increased. Students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have likewise increased. The aim of the paper was basically to examine the impact of the peer counselling experience on the students who volunteer to be trained and serve as Peer Counsellors. To the best of our knowledge, no study as yet has examined impact of peer counselling among university students in Ghana. Yet, we believe it is a program worth further exploration and development to equip the youth with altruistic values. Reports from the Peer Counsellors affirm the positive impact of the experience on their lives as young people. It projects a viable developmental pathway, career wise, for some of them aside the promotion of own and others wellbeing. Administrative and functional structure of the KPC is described in the paper and recommended as a program for other tertiary institutions to augment formation and education of students. Citation:Owusu-Ansah, F. E., Peasah, O. S. B., De-Graft Adjei, V., Jantuah, S. and Hackman, J. (2021). Challenging and Changing Lives: The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counseling Program, a Model for Tertiary Institutions.International Journal of Technology and Management Research (IJTMR), Vol. 6 (2): Pp.73-80.Received: January 3, 2021Accepted: September 1, 2021 ER -