Natural Helpers Program

A group of students at Fort Frances High School are helping their peers deal with such issues as stress, relationships and even suicide.

It's part of a Natural Helpers program introduced in September.

Teacher advisor Shane Beckett emphasises says the students are not professionally trained counsellors, but have been given the resources to assist.

"Before these kids were helping their friends already," says Beckett. "They just didn't necessarily have training to identify the big red flags. They didn't know how to access local resources or how to refer them to those resources or other caring adults in the building. Now they have a little more confidence because they have some of that training."

Beckett says through the students help, the school has been able to better help those in need.

A total of 21 students are involved.