The number of support requests Kids Help Phone receives at night is increasing across Canada, the e-mental health support service said.

Demands for reach-outs via text from the hours of 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. eastern time are 183 per cent higher than those received during the day, Kids Help Phone said in a news release.

A 24 per cent increase in overnight requests for help was also reported in the first six months of this year, when compared to last, it said. The six-month data included information as of June 30.

“I say it’s a canary in the coal mine time,” Rebecca Shields, president and CEO at Kids Help Phone, told Global News.

Shields said Kids Help…

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