We work to empower, educate and engage communities to remove stigmas attached to mental health. At SAS our primary focus is to work with adolescents, young adults and caregivers to raise awareness on suicide and depression. In addition, during our menstrual hygiene management focus groups we realized that many of the young girls and women that we serve feel alone, sad, depressed, and have anxiety during their menstrual cycle. Armed with this information we at SAS believe it’s important to also address the concerns around mental health and find resources to help support our communities. We work collaboratively with our local partners to create educational awareness materials and resources to remove stigmas which surround mental health, as well as partner with community resources such as social workers, spiritual counselors, and other mental health professionals to provide services to improve emotional well-being. Our awareness programs include presentations on anti bullying, stress management control, importance to seek counseling, and creative relaxation tools such as yoga, dance, journal writing, meditation, sporting activity, peer to peer communication

We seek to provide information that is mindful and includes components that are culturally appropriate to the communities that we work with, working with local partners to ensure that we are being culturally sensitive. We also believe that healthy minds sometimes need respite, so we try to include or add programs that will give young people and other communities we work with avenues to find ways to relax or take a break by offering sporting activities, arts and crafts projects, and more.