It’s easy to say schools need to do more to help students who are struggling through mental health issues.

It’s entirely another for a group of high school students to take the matter into their own hands.

That’s what a group of Eisenhower High School students are doing, however, by forming the Accepting Who We Are group in the wake of two shocking deaths at Warren Area High School late last year. Two students approached Lori Hahn, school counselor, to see what they could do.

From that request came a group with between five and 10 students attending meetings once a week.

The students have identified some topics of importance — like anxiety and stress — to the student body and will commemorate Mental Health Awareness Week with dress-up theme events and messages for the week of May 9.

Kudos to the students who realized they wanted to have a hand in making things better for their fellow students and for the school staff members who have stood with the students as they organized.

“I really like helping people,” Andrew Allen, one of the students, told the Times Observer. “If we could help change someone’s mind on them wanting to take their life… it would be worth it.”

What’s happening at Eisenhower is a success story that we hope spreads to other schools in the Warren County School District. Only students really know the pressures they are facing each day.

This is an area where our teenagers can be our teachers — and adults can learn a lesson or two.