The key ideas in peer helping are listening and trust. This video will not assist your school in setting up a peer helping program or show how a successful peer helping program is run. It will not help train peer helpers or give teachers information about why or how the program can be successful in your high school. It does show you a dozen peer helpers from these two Ottawa high schools and records their impressions of two guidance counsellors. Unfortunately, like other videos of this type, things would have been drastically improved with a script.
Some good information is lost in rambling discourses by the peer helpers.
Much of the dialogue consists of a single peer helper speaking directly to the camera about his or her feelings. It is often boring and rarely connects with the viewer. The schools in the film are both very multi-racial buildings with close to 2000 students each. Such schools just do not connect with the situation of many high schools in the country. A broader perspective showing peer helping in different types of schools would have been more useful.