Give youths the power to believe
The kids now program equips youth with essential life-success skills that enable them to make positive choices, increase their self-awareness, confidence and communication skills. With the right skills and dedicated mentors youth have the power to reach their full potential.
Who’s Your Mentor?
Who’s Your Mentor?™ is an online video series developed by kids.now, to promote youth mentoring. We asked well-known Canadian businesspeople, community leaders, Olympians, and media personalities to talk about a mentor in their business or personal lives who inspired them or helped get them where they are today.
Why give?
Our goal is to mentor over 2500 kids across Canada in the next 12 months. With your help, together, we can make a difference. Your gift will enable us to mentor more kids and give them life success skills to make positive choices.
Apply to volunteer
When you volunteer your time as a kids.now mentor, you become a positive influence during a critical developmental period in a child’s life – grades seven and eight. As a mentor you’ll improve your own life too!
Kids Now Making a Difference!
Watch students from Cummer Valley Middle School with kids now President, Janet King, on Global’s Making a Difference with Susan Hay!
They took the spotlight to show others what we’re all about. Enjoy!
Kids Now mentors youth with life-success skills to make positive choices.
kids now is a national, after school mentoring program that empowers grades 7 and 8 youth, to believe in themselves so they can make positive choices. We mentor kids now so they can confidently face today's challenges and thrive as tomorrow's leaders.
Who’s your Mentor?
Who’s Your Mentor?™ is an online video series that promotes youth mentoring.
Notable Canadian businesspeople, community leaders, Olympians, and media personalities talk about a mentor who helped get them where they are today. Many shared their views on why it’s important to mentor the next generation of leaders.
Partner Spotlight
State Farm® has been supporting kids.now since 2008 and has donated over $800,000 to help kids.now provide bright futures for our children.
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Success Stories
Carey’s Story
I grew up in Toronto’s Jane-Finch corridor, arguably one of the toughest neighbourhoods in the city, where negative influences abound and threaten the successful development of youth.
Read My Story
Shanika’s Story
As a former participant of the kids.now program, I experienced firsthand the advantage of having a mentor who was a positive role model and helped me develop the skills I needed to succeed.
Read My Story