NZ
Child Helpline Not Surprised By International School Safety
Study
15-12-08
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational
Achievement survey showing that bullying in New Zealand schools
is in the worst category in the world comes as no surprise
to national child helpline 0800WHATSUP. Young callers have
been telling the helpline since its lines opened in 2001 that
bullying is their main concern.
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Out
of the mouths of children – 0800WHATSUP data reveals
children’s concerns
29-02-08
Problems with friends and peers, bullying, problems at home,
loneliness, coping at school, health, self-esteem, relationship
breakups, abuse and harassment – these are some of the
concerns children talk about when they call 0800WHATSUP.
Last year 122,681 calls were answered by telephone counsellors
at 0800WHATSUP. Concerns about friends and peers continued
to be the major reason children and young people called 0800WHATSUP
(one in five calls), with bullying a close second.
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Relief
For kids at Christmas - call 0800WHATSUP
13-12-07
Children and young people suffering the pressures of Christmas
can call 0800WHATSUP – open noon to midnight, seven
days a week, every day of the year.
“We keep the lines open because we know that while Christmas
can be a great time of year if you’re surrounded by
close families and good friends, it can be a challenge if
you’re not,” says Grant Taylor, Executive Director
of What’s Up, the free telephone counselling service
for five to 18 year olds."
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Kiwi
Children Face Mental Health Problems
26-11-07
The importance of good mental health in the development of
young New Zealanders is recognised in new measures of child
health released today.
The measures, published in “Monitoring the Health of
New Zealand Children and Young People: Indicator Handbook”,
result from work by the Paediatric Society of New Zealand
and the Ministry of Health. They will enable us to systematically
track the health and well-being of New Zealand’s children
and young people over time.
The inclusion of mental health issues is warmly welcomed
by the national telephone counselling service for children
and young people, 0800WHATSUP.
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0800WHATSUP
head chairs global advocacy taskforce
21-11-07
Promoting children’s rights and child helplines globally
are the top priorities of 800WHATSUP Executive Director Grant
Taylor in his new role as chairperson of Child Helpline International’s
Advocacy Taskforce.
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Help
is out there for abused children
30-07-07
Children experiencing abuse in New Zealand are turning to
helplines for support.
During 2006, national helpline 0800WHATSUP answered 259 calls
from children and young people concerned about abuse. It has
dealt with 2,026 of these calls since the freephone opened
in September 2001.
The kinds of abuse reported include emotional abuse, physical
abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. Young people who have abused
other children or young people seeking help to stop their
behaviour also call. Sexual and physical abuse are the most
common types of abuse reported.
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Bullying
calls dominate What’s Up counselling service statistics
9-03-07
Bullying is second only to handling friendships as the biggest
problem for callers to What’s Up, the free professional
telephone counselling service for five to 18 year olds.
The counsellors at 0800WHATSUP answered 156,477 calls during
2006. Although 39 problem types are tracked, 22% of the callers
aged five to 12 rang about bullying alone. Forty percent of
the calls about bullying reported frequent or continual harassment.
" We should be very concerned about the effects of bullying
on our children,” said Grant Taylor, Executive Director
of What’s Up."
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Bullying
Solution Lies With Communities
13-03-06
The death of 12 year-old Alex Teka must be taken as a sign
of the seriousness of bullying and social relationship issues
for New Zealand children. What’s Up, a national helpline
that answers 500 calls a day from children and young people
all over New Zealand, has received calls from children as
young as seven years expressing the wish to die because of
the bullying they are suffering.
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What's
Up Over Christmas
15-12-05
What’s Up will have its phone lines open this Christmas
for young New Zealanders needing support.
The Christmas season can be a great time of year, when you’re
surrounded by close family and good friends,” says Grant
Taylor, Executive Director of What’s Up, the national
free telephone counselling service for children and young
people.
“But for some children, Christmas can be a challenge.
Although friendships and bullying lead kids’ problems
during the rest of the year, family relationship issues leap
to the fore around Christmas and New Year.”
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Ashburton
Youth Festival Competition Results
09-12-05
Three Ashburton young people won prizes for their correct
entries in the What’s Up problem-solving competition,
run at the Ashburton Youth Council’s X-posure Youth
Event 05.
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Friendship
angst – number one problem at helpline for NZ kids
27-10-05
Making friends and keeping them is top of the list of problems
raised by callers to What’s Up, a free, professional
telephone counselling service for children and young people
nationwide.
“More than a quarter of the calls we receive from children
and young people seeking help are about friendship,”
says Grant Taylor, Executive Director of The Kids Help Trust
Foundation, which runs What’s Up.
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What’s
Up clocks up millionth call
01-07-05
What's Up registered its one millionth call today. More than
432,000 of those calls, registered since the free phone was
launched in September 2001, were answered by What’s
Up’s professional, paid and trained counsellors.
So who is calling and why?
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What's
Up Seeks New Sponsor
12-01-05
What’s Up, the children’s telephone counselling
service, is seeking a new corporate sponsor. This is due to
the fact that one of its present sponsors has decided to take
a different emphasis in terms of their community commitments,
says Grant Taylor, Executive Director, What’s Up.
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Children’s
Telephone Help Line Expands Counselling Hours
8-10-04
What’s Up, the free national telephone counselling
service for five to 18 year olds, will resume its 12-hour
a day, seven day a week service, thanks to a package put together
by Government, Barnardos and major sponsors Kellogg’s,
Griffin’s and White Pages®.
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What's
Up Thrown A Lifeline By White Pages®
29-07-04
White Pages® has stepped in to save New Zealand’s
only free, professional counselling phone line for children,
What’s Up.
The Kids Help Foundation Trust, which runs the service, said
the new sponsorship means What’s Up now has a more secure
future.
Formerly known as The Telephone Book, White Pages joins Griffin’s
and Kellogg’s as one of the ‘family of three’
corporate sponsors behind What’s Up.
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Hon
Ruth Dyson Media Statement - Kids Help Foundation Trust
28-05-04
Funding to assist the Kids Help Foundation Trust has been
approved by the government, Child, Youth and Family Minister
Ruth Dyson announced today.
The Child, Youth and Family Service has agreed to put $40,000
towards meeting the Trust’s shortfall.
"I am pleased that further government financial assistance
will enable the Kids Help Foundation Trust to continue,”
Ruth Dyson said.
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A
chance for Jim to show he knows What's Up
26-05-04
Green Party MP Nándor Tánczos today congratulated
Jim Anderton on his Budget initiatives for suicide prevention
and called on the Minister to use some of these funds to rescue
successful youth counselling hot line What’s Up? from
closure.
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Kids'
free counselling phoneline to close
20-05-04
New Zealand’s only free, professional counselling phoneline
for children, What’s Up, will close at the end of May.
The Kids Help Foundation Trust, which runs the service, said
today it had been unable to find new sponsors to keep the
phonelines going.
Trust executive director Grant Taylor said that, since the
service announced in March it was facing closure, it had received
a lot of enthusiastic support for its work but no substantial
financial backing.
Taylor said if the Trust could find just $70,000, it could
keep going while it negotiated with a potential major new
sponsor.
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Kids’
free counselling phoneline facing closure unless new sponsors
found
18-03-04
New Zealand’s only free, professional counselling phoneline
for children may be forced to close unless new sponsors are
found urgently.
The service costs more than $850,000 a year to run but recently
lost two of its four major corporate sponsors.
"On top of that, stop-gap funding from a similar organisation
in Australia is not available to us on an ongoing basis,”
the Trust’s executive director Grant Taylor said.
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‘What’s
Up’ counselling service receives Australian aid
21
Jan 2004
Australia’s largest national children’s charity,
BoysTown Lotteries, has given a $170,000 grant to New Zealand’s
Kids Help Foundation to help finance the Kiwi children’s
charity between sponsors.
The Kids Help Foundation, which runs the heavily-used What’s
Up nationwide telephone counselling service, lost one major
corporate sponsor last year, and another sponsorship will
finish at the end of the month.
Executive Director Grant Taylor says the Foundation continues
to be sponsored by Kellogg’s and Griffins. It is actively
seeking replacement funding and sponsors and would welcome
contact from anyone wishing to support its work.
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Return-to-school
a return-to-bullying for many Kiwi kids
20
Jan 2004
The What’s Up telephone counselling service has reported
an increase in calls from kids who are depressed and anxious
about returning to school for fear of schoolyard bullying.
Recent statistics released by the service show bullying,
both in and out of the schoolyard, remains one of the biggest
concerns for both school-aged boys and girls.
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Friendship
and popularity most serious concerns of children
16
Jan 2004
Peer relationships, intimidation and harassment are big issues
for New Zealand children as well as children overseas, says
Grant Taylor the Executive Director of the Kids Help Foundation.
Commenting on a NZ Herald article, “Deadly Vengeance
Creates Cult Heroes” (16/1/04) Mr Taylor said New Zealand
had not seen school violence on a par with Colorado’s
Columbine High School killings, but there are good reasons
to be concerned about the social world of the Kiwi schoolyard.
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It’s
All About Relationships For New Zealand Children
9
Jan 2004
Almost half of all calls to the What’s Up free telephone
counselling service last year were from kids worried about
their relationships with others.
Relationship concerns made up 47 per cent of all calls to
the service and specific calls about peer relationships made
up over 21 per cent of all calls – an increase of 2.2
per cent over 2002.
The service also saw a 5 per cent increase over 2002 in the
number of boys asking for help and advice. In 2003 boys made
up 41 per cent of calls and girls 59 per cent. This compared
to 2002 where only 36 per cent of calls were from boys.
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What’s
Up Doubles Money
24
Nov 2003
The What’s Up Charity Auction held in Auckland last
Tuesday was an outstanding success.
Organisers went in to the event expecting to make about $20,000
for the cash-strapped charity and finished the night with
$41,752 - raised through ticket sales and auctioned items.
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Carreras
Tickets Up For Auction
10
Nov 2003
Tickets for Auckland’s sell-out Jose Carreras concert
at the Aotea Centre will be auctioned at the What’s
Up Charity Auction on November 18.
Public tickets for the concert are under heavy demand and
the Auction will provide an opportunity for any disappointed
Carreras fans to try their luck once more.
The four A Reserve tickets up for auction are just one of
a range of generous prizes people have donated to support
What’s Up” says Executive Director Grant Taylor.
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Hot
Bidding Expected At What’s Up Charity Auction
03
Nov 2003
Offers are rolling in for what looks set to be one of Auckland’s
hottest Charity Auction’s this year.
Tandem high-altitude sky diving tickets, helicopter rides,
a weekend at White Water Lodge, and season tickets to the
Warriors are just some of the prizes that will come under
the hammer at the What’s Up Fund Raising auction at
George Restaurant & Bar in Parnell on Tuesday November
18.
The Charity is currently experiencing a funding crisis due
to the withdrawal of two primary corporate sponsors and is
on a major drive to pull in new sponsors and raise emergency
funds.
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Children’s
Help Line Seeks Children’s Art Works
30
Sep 2003
What’s Up, the national help line for children and
young people, has answered 114,000 calls from children and
young people throughout New Zealand in the last year and is
now asking children to send in pictures they have made to
decorate the walls of its offices. A randomly chosen pictures
will win a monthly prize of food products donated by What's
Up's sponsors.
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Young
Champions Carry The Flag For Children’s Help Line
10
July 2003
Outstanding young athletes Terenzo Bozzone and Cameron Calkoen
have pledged their support as Youth Ambassadors to national
children’s telephone counselling service, What’s
Up.
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Fighting
a Mission Impossible
24
May 2003
KHF Executive Director Grant Taylor is profiled in the second
half of this NZ Herald article as a non-profit leader for
whom managing a non-profit organisation is a matter of passion
and personal fulfillment.
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Locked
Up for What’s Up
Up
5 Feb 2003
On Saturday, February 8, amidst the hustle and bustle of
the American Express Viaduct Harbour, a host of well-known
Aucklanders from the worlds of business, sport and entertainment
– including leading TV2 shows – will find themselves
‘fingered’ by the long arm of the law.
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Children’s
Help Line Receives Major Grant
14
Jan 2003
The national children's telephone counselling service –
What’s Up - has welcomed a $35,000 grant from the AMP
Foundation.
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Children
all over NZ have similar problems
9
Oct 2002
Over 35,000 New Zealand children and young people with real
and immediate problems have received help in the last year
from What’s Up, a national free telephone counselling
service. Clear patterns and issues have emerged throughout
the country.
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Calls
To What’s Up Children’s Help Line Top 100,000
23
Aug 2002
The What’s Up telephone counselling service for children
and young people has answered its 100,000th call on 5th August
and is on target to have answered 114,000 calls by the time
it marks its first year of operations on September
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Bullying
Calls Dominate Counselling Service Statistics
5
May 2002
Bullying is the number one problem for pre-teens and the
second biggest problem for 5 to 18 year-olds calling What’s
Up, the professional telephone counselling service for children
and young people launched last September.
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Telephone
Counselling Service Releases Data On NZ Children’s Problems
29
April 2002
The free, national counselling service for New Zealand children
– What’s Up – today released caller data
for its first few months of service.
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WHAT’S
UP WITH WHAT’S UP? - Kiwi Kids Flock to Help Line with
their Concerns
13
Jan 2002
Four months since opening for business, What’s Up,
the free, nationwide telephone counselling service for children
and young people, says it is right on target, both in terms
of the need for the service and also in terms of what’s
bugging Kiwi kids.
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