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BMO Financial Group will announce a donation to Kids Help Phone to help launch The Kids Help Phone Futures Campaign. Kids Help Phone is Canada's only toll-free, 24-hour bilingual phone and online counselling service. This important donation will allow Kids Help Phone to provide the immediate help troubled and abused Canadian kids need and deserve. It will help support improved technology, online kids web services and an enhanced Knowledge Management System for counsellors. Consider these startling statistics:
- Reported cases of abuse and neglect have risen 125% from 1998
- More than one million children suffer from clinical disorders
- Suicide is second leading cause of death among 10-19 year olds
| When: | November 8, 2007, 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
| Where: | One First Canadian Place 100 King Street West, Toronto (Entrance closest to Northwest Corner of King and Bay Streets) |
| Who: | Tom McAllister – President, Kids Help Phone Jann Arden – Singer, songwriter and Juno Award-winner Bill Downe – President and Chief Executive Officer, BMO Financial Group Graham Parsons – Executive Vice President Global Private Banking, BMO Financial Group and Kids Help Phone's Chair of the Futures Campaign |
BMO's employee volunteers provide leadership support for Kids Help Phone across Canada. In 2006, BMO's corporate sponsorship and employee support totalled over $840,000.
About Kids Help Phone
Kids Help Phone is Canada's only toll-free, 24-hour, bilingual and anonymous phone and web counselling, referral and information service for children and youth. Every day, professional counsellors provide immediate, caring support to young people in urban and rural communities across the country. Kids contact Kids Help Phone about every issue imaginable – from school, dating and family problems, to depression, abuse and suicide. In 2006, Kids Help Phone helped young people in need from almost 3,000 Canadian communities more than 1.5 million times through its phone and online services.
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