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Why youth need us to innovate together
In 2023, Kids Help Phone disrupted Canada’s e-mental health landscape to help support youth more than 4.7 million times — the highest number in our 35-year history. That is extraordinary. KHP is the exponent for progress toward more equitable mental health supports for youth. And we need your help to solve the equation!
The KHP Innovation and Applied Research Accelerator for Youth Mental Health (acceleratorKHP) is the pathway to the next generation of KHP and puts young people across Canada at the centre of their well-being in ways never before possible. acceleratorKHP will help address the growing mental health crisis and deliver a personalized, gamified experience with and for youth along with clinical experts and leading technology partners.
By collaborating with acceleratorKHP, you can help transform Canada’s e-mental health landscape and:
- revolutionize supports for youth to thrive in their worlds
- design new, scalable and personalized well-being products
- co-create innovations with youth so their feelings have a place to go
- research answers to questions we all worry about and issues that matter
- influence policy to effect real, lasting and positive change
- catalyze systems solutions locally and globally
- leverage KHP’s expertise and test products among 200+ clinicians
- expand your network among the tech and mental health sectors
- engage with an award-winning organization
- connect with one of the most trusted charities in Canada
On average, 75% of people contacting KHP share something they’ve never told anyone before.
acceleratorKHP is the next factor in our collective evolution to dial into youth and their well-being so they can Feel Out Loud. But to understand where we’re going, we must reflect on where we’ve been.
No one understands the needs of youth across Canada like KHP.
We were doing e-mental health before it was a concept thanks to renowned partners. When “fine” isn’t fine, legendary Canadian and world leaders at acceleratorKHP push boundaries and overcome obstacles in the modern digital era.