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1 in 8 teens suffer from depression; Every 18 minutes, a teen commits suicide, every 19 min.s they leave someone wondering why...
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Teen Help 4 Teens is all about trying to help teenagers get through life... Trying to help them deal with depression; with any stress, anxieties, or any other problems that they may be facing. Read More
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CHILL FOUNDATION
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BURLINGTON , VT
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80 INDUSTRIAL PKWY , BURLINGTON , VT
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Chill is a non profit, learn to ride board sports program for at risk kids. Every year, we take over 100 kids from each city to the slopes, beach and skate parks and provide them with everything they need to ride: lessons, transportation, gear, and tickets, whatever. Kids want to learn how to snowboard, surf, and skate because it's cool and fun, but it takes several lessons and tons of hard work to learn. We use board sports to help kids accomplish goals they never thought they could while teaching them some of the most important lessons of life- patience, persistence, responsibility, courage, integrity, and pride-all through positive adult role models who treat them with respect and encouragement.
This year alone, Chill will serve over 2,500 disadvantaged boys and girls in 19 North American cities, Sydney, Australia and Innsbruck, Austria.
Chill works in communities with agencies that serve youth who are challenged by a multitude of issues. Some live in group homes and foster care, some are drug or alcohol addicted, some come from the juvenile justice system, and some deal daily with violence, excessive anger, depression, and feelings of worthlessness. Many of the kids we work with have never left their cities, or even their neighborhoods, and most have never experienced riding on a mountain or a wave. More than that, Chill gives these youth an opportunity to belong to a community of riders and helps them see beyond their existing circumstances to envision what the possibilities for their lives might be.
Jake and Donna Burton founded Chill in 1995 in our hometown of Burlington, Vermont to bring snowboarding to kids who otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity. Chill had and continues to have an immediate and profound impact on the youth and the communities we work with. We continue to utilize our resources to serve more kids and expand to new cities with our year round board sports programming.
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