00:00The Samaritan Movement has launched a new initiative aimed at strengthening students' mental and spiritual well-being.
00:06Manager of Operations at the Samaritan Movement, Daria Narain, says the program marks the first in a series of retreats
00:13designed to support more than 350 students
00:16as they navigate stress, grief, identity, trauma, and major light transitions, particularly during the reflective Lenten season.
00:27Students, Form 6 students, and we're looking to introduce them to the basics of mental health first aid, which really
00:32means, think of it more like actual first aid.
00:36For those of you who've done CPR or any form of first aid, you know that that saves a life,
00:40but then you hand it over to the professionals.
00:43That is the same thing with mental health first aid.
00:44We want to establish some level of peer-to-peer support where it can possibly save a life, and then
00:50they move them on to the professionals.
00:54Narain adds that the organization is also expanding its support network to include teachers and parents.
01:02We offer parenting circles and parenting sessions where we help parents to come together to have conversations around the best
01:09parenting practices that they can have in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:11Narain adds that aรง to mental health, and that as a person on camera is currently housing.
01:11It's essential that we know the other end labs pagan every day or day.
01:12So, change our minds seven feet on a basis.
01:12So, sometimes the administrations that allow parents to run it along a way.
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01:13But now you can be able to install it all.
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