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Kids Help Phone (french: Jeunesse, J’écoute) is a Canadian
charitable organization A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definition of a ...
that provides online and
telephone counselling Telephone counseling refers to any type of psychological service performed over the telephone. Telephone counseling ranges from individual, couple or group psychotherapy with a professional therapist to psychological first aid provided by para-prof ...
and volunteer-led, text-based support in English and French to youth across Canada. Kids Help Phone also provides information on how to access community support services for youth.


Organization and activities

Kids Help Phone was launched in 1989 and its website was launched in 1996.Daw, J., Cone, C. (2010). Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding: Seven Principles to Power Extraordinary Results. Germany: Wiley. The organization expanded its mandate in 2002 from providing counselling to more types of support, including bullying and abuse. Kids Help Phone provides free and confidential mental health support to Canadian youth. Services were originally telephone based with more recent provision of text message and internet based text message support. In 2016, Kids Help Line launched ''BroTalk'' website and internet based chat services to address the specific mental health needs of young men. In June 2022 the Canadian government announced a contribution agreement with Kids Help Phone to provide counselling services for young Afghan and Ukrainian refugees in the languages of Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian and Russian. The government indicated it will also provide contributions that will allow Kids Help Phone to hire interpreters in 100 languages by 2025. In 2019, Kids Help Phone began to offer outreach services in Arabic and Mandarin.


See also

* ChildLine - a similar service in the U.K. and
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. *
Kids Helpline Kids Helpline is a free Australian telephone and online counselling service for young people aged between 5 and 25. Counsellors respond to more than 6,000 calls each week about issues ranging from relationship breakdown and bullying to sexu ...
- a similar service in Australia.


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* {{official, https://kidshelpphone.ca 1989 establishments in Ontario Children's charities based in Canada Crisis hotlines Youth organizations based in Canada Youth organizations established in 1989 Non-profit organizations based in Toronto Mental health organizations in Canada Charities based in Canada