What is Kids Helpline?
{{third-party|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox Organization | name = Kids Helpline | image = | image_border = | size = | caption = | map = | msize = | mcaption = | motto = Anytime Any Reason | formation = 25 March 1991 | extinction = | type = Helpline | headquarters = | location = | membership = | language = | leader_title = | leader_name = | key_people = | num_staff = 110 counsellors | budget = | website = https://kidshelpline.com.au }} '''Kids Helpline''' is a [[counselling]] service in Australia for people who are between 5 and 25 years old. Children & young people contact Kids Helpline to speak about problems in their lives. These problems range from fighting with friends and breaking up with a partner to [[suicide|suicidal]] thoughts and being hurt or [[abuse|abused]]. Kids Helpline [[employ]]s about 110 people to work as counsellors. The call centres are based in [[Brisbane]] so all the calls that people make to the Kids Helpline go through to a call centre in Brisbane. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kidshelp.com.au/grownups/about-us/our-people/counselling-team.php |title=Kids Helpline - Counselling Team |accessdate=9 March 2011 |archive-date=17 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217074547/http://kidshelp.com.au/grownups/about-us/our-people/counselling-team.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> These counsellors listen to nearly 6,000 calls from young people each week.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kids Helpline - About KHL|url=https://kidshelpline.com.au/about/about-khl|accessdate=9 March 2011}}</ref> Kids Helpline is run by [[yourtown]]. Most of the money needed for it to run is raised through [[lottery|lotteries]] held by yourtown. The [[Australian Government]] also helps by giving some money. [[Optus]] is their biggest [[sponsor]]. == History == Kids Helpline was opened for taking calls on the 25 March 1991. On the first day more than 3,200 young people rang up to ask for help. By the 17th day, 122,000 thousand calls had been made. Not many of these calls were able to be answe