BGIS Makes Transformational USD 1M Commitment to Youth Mental Health Across Canada

Published: 13 Dec 2024

Author: Precedence Research

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The prominent national e-mental health service in Canada, Kids Help Phone, has now partnered with BGIS, a facilities management company, so that the future of Cam's Kids receives financial support. This program, which is being instituted for $1 million a year by BGIS, will involve training of resource ambassadors in mental health whose mandate will be to provide students, using resource tools, with an idea of how to create awareness about the program across campuses and communities in Canada.

Named after our ambassador Cam Hicks, the Cam's Kids program allows young people to be representatives for each other and create positive mental health environments. This partnership will see it going to a stage where, by 2029, such a program would probably double its reach. Therefore, a more in-depth impact nationally will be created. It is a good testimony of the long-standing relationship with Kids Help Phone that has been under the leadership of Gord Hicks, CEO: out of 21 million plus young people to whom services reached from 2020, anxieties, stress, and depression would stand out the most.

The naming and developing of the program in honor of Cam Hicks as an honorary mental health ambassador would allow young leaders installation with tools that would enable the creation of networks of support for mental well-being. BGIS cooperated with the program to enable its capacity to double its beneficiaries for training ambassadors to create such networks, which may then create permanent effects by the year 2029. "Cam's Kids empowers youth to help their peers with mental health issues, and these kids will learn skills that last a lifetime for helping others," noted CEO Gordon Hicks while emphasizing the partnership.

The partnership focuses on serving underserved communities by improving their mental health awareness and access to resources. Since 2020, Kids Help Phone has been running 24/7 delivery of its full-blown e-mental health unit for over 21 million young Canadians, of whom 88% report that they feel much better after using the service. The program addresses anxiety, depression, stress, and loneliness, with trained ambassadors addressing these topics. It goes further by creating a community in which ambassadors inspire others to be champions of mental health in their communities.