Design a Peer Support Mental Health Model for Nigerian Secondary Schools

Secondary school students in Nigeria face academic pressure, family economic stress, social media anxiety, and increasingly, exposure to violence. School counsellors are rare, underfunded, and undertrained. Professional therapy is unaffordable for most families. Your challenge is to design a structured peer support model — where trained student volunteers support their classmates — that can be implemented in a Nigerian secondary school with no additional budget. It must have clear boundaries (peer supporters are not therapists), a referral pathway for serious cases, and a training curriculum. Submit: model overview, peer supporter selection and training, session structure, boundaries and referral triggers, how the school administration is involved, and a 6-month rollout plan. Judging criteria: 35% safety and clinical boundaries, 30% feasibility within school constraints, 25% training quality, 10% originality.