Impact<\/strong><\/p><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Our vision is all children and youth living, learning, and playing in safe and caring communities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> WITS programs have empowered hundreds of thousands of Canadian children and youth. Since the WITS strategies started being taught on Vancouver Island in the 1990s, the program has spread to communities in every province and territory in Canada, including in over 50 Indigenous communities, plus schools in USA, Egypt, Korea, Belgium and Germany.<\/p>\n \u201cKids reach all these outcomes, not just social responsibility outcomes. Because it\u2019s literature-based they\u2019re addressing all these other outcomes as well.\u201d \u2013 <\/em>WITS educator<\/p>\n Pink Shirt Project was started in 2023 and is now used in schools all over Canada. PSP builds on the original principal of Pink Shirt Day: finding creative ways to solve important problems. Canadian Kindness Leaders empowers kids to take action on issues of concern in their communities. CKL was piloted from 2020-2022 in 36 schools in four Canadian provinces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some of the organizations supporting our important initiatives are Heritage Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, the Robert Bateman Foundation, Safer Schools Together, community and family foundations across the nation, Egale, and the RCMP\u2019s Youth Services and Indigenous Services sections.<\/p>\n We are catalysts of positive change, creating a kinder and more compassionate society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>WITS positively impacts thousands of kids every day.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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