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'Guide to Life’ supplied to 57,000 teens across New Zealand
INFORMATION
Press Release
10 May
2013
‘Guide to Life’ supplied to 57,000 teens across New Zealand thanks to Blue Light and Youthtown
All year nine students across New Zealand will this week have received the Blue Light ‘Kidsmart Guide to Life’ a comprehensive booklet providing young people with information on a wide range of topics which may affect them such as alcohol, bullying, drugs, stress, eating disorders, family, legal issues, grief & loss, harassment and many others. The guide provides a practical summary along with websites and phones numbers where young people can turn for further help.
The guide is a joint partnership between Youthtown and Blue Light, the youth charity which works in partnership with the New Zealand Police. Books were distributed to schools via Blue Light branches and uniformed Police Officers for the start of term two.
“Our young people are under increasing pressure and have many choices and decisions to make. Getting access to reliable information and people to help is easy if you know where to look and who to ask. The Blue Light ‘Kidsmart Guide to Life’ provides all the information they might need in one place” said Brendon Crompton, Blue Light Acting CEO.
“In addition to running our Youthtown programs and activities throughout New Zealand we are also committed to helping other worthwhile youth focused initiatives” said Michael White, President, Youthtown Inc. Board. “The Blue Light Kidsmart ‘Guide to Life’ is a great example of this as it seeks to provide practical, helpful information on lots of life topics to secondary school students”.
Young people aged between 13 – 18 years are also encouraged to head online before 17 May to take part in the ‘Youthtown Voice of NZ Survey 2013’ with every completed survey going into the draw to win an ipad3. www.youthtown.org.nz
Blue Light has a strong vision of Empowering Youth. All Blue Light programs and activities are designed to; reduce the incidence of young people being an offender or victim of crime and to encourage better relations between young people, their parents, the police and the communities we live in. For further information visit www.bluelight.co.nz
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