The Contest that Started It All

Before there was a “Talk Overdose” project, we were just 4 teenage girls entering a competition run by the University of British Columbia’s Addictions and Concurrent Disorders Research Group. This is the video we entered.

We were the youngest entrants by far and were lucky to be chosen as finalists, but we were not selected as the winner. Undaunted, we decided to launch our project anyway.

Then, we realized we could do even more and we founded Youth4Youth Canada to manage this, and other projects.

UBC watched our progress and reached out to us on Twitter:

“Amazing work! Great seeing your team’s impressive updates :)”

Never give up! We didn’t.

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