The TEN TALKS project is a series focussing on mental health awareness and advocacy for youth in Samoa. Since July 2020, this project has involved in-person and online dialogues where attendees can lean in to listen and ask questions to lived experience leaders and mental health professionals. Through these “talanoa” sessions, TEN TALKS aimed to raise awareness and advocate for better mental health policies, program outcomes and products/services for youth living in Samoa and the Pacific Islands.

Since late 2021, the TEN TALKS project has transitioned fully into an online dialogue through a podcast format. Uniting the various Apia Shaper members and occasional (planned) guests, this format will allow for discussion on the importance of mental health and its relationship with a host of different topics, starting off with environmental sustainability and corporate workplace health.