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The results are in for the Kids Help Phone Poster Contest!
Earlier this summer we invited you to help us decide the look of a new
Aboriginal youth outreach campaign.
Thank you to everyone who voted!
Your input will help get an important message out to Aboriginal youth throughout Ontario.
The results are in and we are excited to show you the winning designs:
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Runners Up:
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About the project
This year, thanks to a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport, Kids Help Phone embarked on a year-long project called Building Capacities to Better Support Aboriginal Youth. We wanted to focus on enhancing counselling skills, inviting youth feedback and ensuring service sustainability.
Between February and April 2011, several counsellors and support staff headed to five Ontario communities - Moose Factory, Serpent River, Toronto, Thunder Bay, and Kettle and Stony Point - to meet with young people, community elders and youth service providers and talk with them about Kids Help Phone. We needed to learn as much as we could from the communities so that we could better serve their needs.
What did these young people tell us?
Even though there is a need for Kids Help Phone services, there is room for us to improve how we communicate to Aboriginal Youth in a more inclusive way.
That's why, in working with the Native Canadian Centre, Kids Help Phone invited Aboriginal youth to develop their own poster concepts. We are sharing them here so that Aboriginal youth from communities across Canada can provide feedback to help choose the next Kids Help Phone campaign. Help us choose the two new posters that will be printed and available to Aboriginal communities throughout Ontario.