PO Box 26062, St. John’s, NL A1E 0A5
Tel: (709) 685-0629 Email: emily.cardwell@kidshelpphone.ca
Youtube: KidsHelpPhone Counselling Line: 1-800-668-6868
Website: www.kidshelpphone.ca/ Twitter: @KidsHelpPhone
Facebook: @KidsHelpPhone Instagram: @kidshelpphone
Text: Talk to 686868
Mandate: To improve the well-being of children and youth in Canada by providing them anonymous and confidential professional counseling, referrals, and information through technologically-based communications media; to continue to improve and grow, ensuring delivery of the most effective, timely and valuable counselling, referrals and information to every young person who could benefit from the support.
Target Population: Children and youth ages 5+
Highlight of Programs / Services Offered:
- Offers Canada’s only national, bilingual, 24-hour, toll-free confidential and anonymous phone and web counselling, referral and information service for children and youth
- To reach a Kids Help Phone professional counselor, kids, teens and young adults, from any community in Canada, can call or go online 24 hours a day, 365 day a year
- From trouble with homework to dealing with loss and grief to thoughts of suicide, kids can talk to Kids Help Phone about anything
- Kids Help Phone has access to a database of over 37,000 local resources, to connect kids to a service right in their community.
- Offers a variety of resources and articles targeted towards youth:
- Emotional Well-Being: Anxiety & Panic, Grief & Loss, Loneliness, Depression & Sadness, Stress, Anger, Self-Esteem, Eating Disorders, Self-Injury & Suicide, Substance Use
- My Body: Puberty, Sleep, Exercise & Nutrition, Illness
- Bullying & Abuse: Bullying, Cyberbullying, Family Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Assault & Harassment, Human Trafficking
- Identity: Indigenous, LGBTQ, Body Image
- Sex & Relationships, Dating & Relationships, Dating Violence, Sex, Sexting
- School & Work: High School, Test & Grades, Post-Secondary, Money & Jobs, Housing
- Friends & Family: Friends, Family, Divorce, Teen Parenting, Living In Care