That is such an important question.
It's interesting. We are not seeing young people name it eco-anxiety, or climate change anxiety right now. What we are seeing, certainly, when we experience any kind of disaster related to climate, whether it is wildfires or flooding, we see an increase in contacts from that area. We will continue to see young people reaching out about that as we continue to see those disasters occur.
It is part of our role at Kids Help Phone to start helping young people name that and think through what it means and what they can do. A lot of the work that we do is helping young people understand what they can control and what their role is. When it comes to climate change, young people have to understand they have a voice and that they can use it. Supporting young people to use that voice, whether it is writing letters or talking about the impact of climate change, is some of the work that we still have yet to do at Kids Help Phone.
I want to also connect that to some of the conversations we were talking about just a moment ago about indigenous people. Certainly, at Kids Help Phone we've done a lot of work with a distinctions-based approach for first nations, Métis and Inuit youth. We are seeing there are significant concerns from our indigenous young people around the climate, around what's happening to their communities and the planet we live on.
Being able to have those conversations.... We piloted last year, and have continued, where we trained indigenous volunteers for our texting line—that's our volunteer service—so that when young people text Métis, Inuit or first nations, we can try to connect them with a volunteer of the same background, so they can actually have those conversations about climate change or anything else that's concerning them with somebody who actually understands that background. That's been incredibly powerful.