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Partners in Digital Heroes [e-mentoring for Ontario's youth at risk]

Publication: Summit
Date: Friday, March 1 2002

Ontario s Promise (www.ontariospromise.com), launched in November 2000, brings together business, non-profit agencies that serve children, community leaders and individuals, as well as parents, to provide leadership and support for Ontario s youth. It has designed a program, Digital Heroes, that joins

the forces of Frontier College and AOL Canada with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada (BBBSC) to provide e-mentoring on aspects of personal development, educational questions and careers for the province s youth at risk. AOL Canada supplies the Internet access; BBBSC and Frontier College provide the mentors.

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