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Juno Award-winner Jann Arden as BMO Donates Largest Ever Corporate
Gift to Kids Help Phone
TORONTO,
November 7, 2007 – 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:
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Reported cases of abuse and neglect have risen 125% from 1998
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More than one million children suffer from clinical disorders
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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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Media contacts:
Ralph
Marranca/Paul Gammal
BMO Financial Group
416-867-3996
Virginia Middleton
Kids Help Phone
416-586-5437 ext. 8345 |