Motorola Foundation Supports Kids Help Phone School Tour in Canada
Non-profit organization offers free counseling for troubled teens.
The Motorola Foundation announced it has partnered with Motorola Canada to support the Kids Help Phone School Tour. Presented by Motorola’s Raise Your Voice™ program, the tour aims to raise awareness among Canadian high school students about Kids Help Phone services and encourage them to talk about things that are troubling them.
The upcoming 2010 school year marks the fourth Kids Help Phone School Tour presented by Raise Your Voice™. Designed to give young people across Canada the opportunity to hear about the country’s only confidential and anonymous phone and web counseling service, the tour brings Kids Help Phone counselors - the people who answer the calls and online questions every day – into the schools to explain the service, dispel myths and encourage students to raise their voice.
“Motorola Canada is committed to in supporting our youth and making their voices heard,” said George Krausz, Motorola Canada. “We are excited to continue our involvement with Kids Help Phone through our Raise Your Voice™ program and with additional support from the Motorola Foundation.”
“It is only with the support of champion organizations like Motorola Canada that youth are able to learn about Kids Help Phone so that they will raise their voice and reach out for help,” said Sharon Wood, President & CEO, Kids Help Phone. “We appreciate the added commitment from the Motorola Foundation which will allows us to provide help and hope to more youth across Canada.”
Since 2006, Kids Help Phone school tours have reached over 50 schools in 55 cities, with visibility to over 28,000 students. With the additional support of the Motorola Foundation, this year’s tour aims to provide an avenue for even more Canadian youth to discuss challenges they face from the classroom to the school yard to the home.
“Countless youth have received the counsel and support they need through Kids Help Phone,” said Eileen Sweeney, director of the Motorola Foundation. ”The Motorola Foundation is pleased to support organizations like Kids Help Phone that make a difference in people’s lives and in the communities where our employees live and work.”
About Kids Help Phone
This year marks Kids Help Phone’s 20th Anniversary. For the past two decades, Kids Help Phone has been at the forefront in providing help and hope through its phone and web counselling services, earning the respect and trust of kids across Canada. When young people feel like there’s nowhere to turn, when parents, schools and social services are unavailable, closed, backlogged or simply not accessible for any reason, Kids Help Phone is there. Young people know that when they reach out to Kids Help Phone, any time of the day or night, they’ll be connected with a professional counsellor who can provide immediate, kid-friendly insight, help and direction on a wide variety of key and emerging issues.
About Raise Your Voice™
Motorola Canada's Raise Your Voice™ initiative is a national philanthropy program that urges youth to ask for help when they need it. Driven by a strong belief that no one should feel alone when facing problems, Raise Your Voice™ aims to empower young people to speak up when they are struggling and to create communities that support youth when they do request help. Raise Your Voice™ teams up with organizations in Canada that understand the problems young people face, and provide resources and support to help them be heard. For more information about Raise Your Voice™, please visit www.raiseyourvoice.ca.
About Motorola Foundation
The Motorola Foundation is the charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola. With employees located around the globe, Motorola seeks to benefit the communities where it operates. The company achieves this by making strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships, fostering innovation and engaging stakeholders. The Motorola Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially science, technology, engineering and math programming. For more information, on Motorola Corporate and Foundation giving, visit www.motorola.com/giving.
The Motorola Foundation announced it has partnered with Motorola Canada to support the Kids Help Phone School Tour. Presented by Motorola’s Raise Your Voice™ program, the tour aims to raise awareness among Canadian high school students about Kids Help Phone services and encourage them to talk about things that are troubling them.
The upcoming 2010 school year marks the fourth Kids Help Phone School Tour presented by Raise Your Voice™. Designed to give young people across Canada the opportunity to hear about the country’s only confidential and anonymous phone and web counseling service, the tour brings Kids Help Phone counselors - the people who answer the calls and online questions every day – into the schools to explain the service, dispel myths and encourage students to raise their voice.
“Motorola Canada is committed to in supporting our youth and making their voices heard,” said George Krausz, Motorola Canada. “We are excited to continue our involvement with Kids Help Phone through our Raise Your Voice™ program and with additional support from the Motorola Foundation.”
“It is only with the support of champion organizations like Motorola Canada that youth are able to learn about Kids Help Phone so that they will raise their voice and reach out for help,” said Sharon Wood, President & CEO, Kids Help Phone. “We appreciate the added commitment from the Motorola Foundation which will allows us to provide help and hope to more youth across Canada.”
Since 2006, Kids Help Phone school tours have reached over 50 schools in 55 cities, with visibility to over 28,000 students. With the additional support of the Motorola Foundation, this year’s tour aims to provide an avenue for even more Canadian youth to discuss challenges they face from the classroom to the school yard to the home.
“Countless youth have received the counsel and support they need through Kids Help Phone,” said Eileen Sweeney, director of the Motorola Foundation. ”The Motorola Foundation is pleased to support organizations like Kids Help Phone that make a difference in people’s lives and in the communities where our employees live and work.”
About Kids Help Phone
This year marks Kids Help Phone’s 20th Anniversary. For the past two decades, Kids Help Phone has been at the forefront in providing help and hope through its phone and web counselling services, earning the respect and trust of kids across Canada. When young people feel like there’s nowhere to turn, when parents, schools and social services are unavailable, closed, backlogged or simply not accessible for any reason, Kids Help Phone is there. Young people know that when they reach out to Kids Help Phone, any time of the day or night, they’ll be connected with a professional counsellor who can provide immediate, kid-friendly insight, help and direction on a wide variety of key and emerging issues.
About Raise Your Voice™
Motorola Canada's Raise Your Voice™ initiative is a national philanthropy program that urges youth to ask for help when they need it. Driven by a strong belief that no one should feel alone when facing problems, Raise Your Voice™ aims to empower young people to speak up when they are struggling and to create communities that support youth when they do request help. Raise Your Voice™ teams up with organizations in Canada that understand the problems young people face, and provide resources and support to help them be heard. For more information about Raise Your Voice™, please visit www.raiseyourvoice.ca.
About Motorola Foundation
The Motorola Foundation is the charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola. With employees located around the globe, Motorola seeks to benefit the communities where it operates. The company achieves this by making strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships, fostering innovation and engaging stakeholders. The Motorola Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially science, technology, engineering and math programming. For more information, on Motorola Corporate and Foundation giving, visit www.motorola.com/giving.
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