Media Advisory - Opening the market in support of youth mental health and well-being

Kids Help Phone and BMO Financial Group raise awareness for the Walk so Kids Can Talk

TORONTO, April 16, 2013 /CNW/ -

WHAT:	Kids Help Phone and BMO will open trading at Toronto Stock Exchange to help raise awareness of the upcoming May 5th Walk so Kids Can Talk, Canada's largest walk in support of child and youth mental health and well-being.
WHEN:	Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 9 a.m. ET
WHERE:	TMX Group Broadcast Centre The Exchange Tower, 130 King Street West TMX Reception - main floor of Exchange Tower
WHY	* To raise awareness about the Walk so Kids Can Talk presented by BMO * To honour the thousands of individuals across the country who are fundraising, donating and volunteering on Sunday, May 5th to ensure the kids, teens and young adults in every Canadian community can continue to reach out to the professional counsellors at Kids Help Phone for help with a wide variety of issues, from struggles with family relationships and stress at school to depression, cyberbullying, abuse, and everything in between.
WHO:	Opening the Market: Sharon Wood, President and CEO, Kids Help Phone Richard Rudderham, Executive Vice-President and Head of Human Resources, BMO Financial Group

The Walk so Kids Can Talk presented by BMO is Canada's largest walk and fundraising campaign in support of child and youth mental health and well-being. It benefits *6.5 million kids, teens, and young adults in Canada, ensuring they have access to a trusted source of immediate, non-judgemental, anonymous, and professional counselling support and clinically vetted information The work of Kids Help Phone has been proven to have a real, positive, and measurable impact, changing - even saving - lives. BMO Financial Group is a Kids Help Phone founding partner sharing the commitment of fostering the emotional health and well-being of the young people in Canada, no matter where they live or what hour of the day or night they need help and hope.

*Source: Statistics Canada 2011

 

Image with caption: "Walk so Kids Can Talk presented by BMO is Canada's largest walk to support child and youth mental health and well-being. It takes place in 30 communities across Canada on Sunday, May 5 2013. (CNW Group/Kids Help Phone)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20130416_C5731_PHOTO_EN_25575.jpg

SOURCE: Kids Help Phone

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Pascale Guillotte
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Kids Help Phone
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Beja Rodeck
Corporate Sponsorships
BMO Financial Group
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