• 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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!

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  • A list of 10 ideas to help your child become more resilient. By family therapist, author and internationally recognized expert on resilience among youth and families, Michael Ungar, Ph.D.

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Before kids make bad choices, we mentor youth with life-success skills now.

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?™ 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.

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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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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.
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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.
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