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Face The Issue Launch
Source: NBN/CP RadioWire
Oct 28, 2003, 14:08

Suggested Anchor Lead-In: An all-female Hollywood dream team including Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lopez, Julianne Moore, and Catherine Zeta-Jones � have lent their support to a new public service campaign aimed at helping troubled teens and young adults.  Lee Shephard has that story.

The campaign is called �Face The Issue� and its goal is to raise awareness for the most pressing emotional and physical health problems facing young people today.  The stars narrate a series of public service announcements that encourage teens to face their issues and also to seek help via a new website, facetheissue.com. Halle berry, who narrates the PSA on physical abuse:

        
�It�s a campaign directed toward young people, be they male or female, who are dealing with the pressures of growing and becoming adults. I have had issues throughout my life and have felt many times that I didn't have a place to go and this gives a real alternative for kids and people to go to a place where they can really get help. And be directed in the right direction.�

The website, facetheissue.com, has information on anorexia, alcoholism, bulimia, depression, drug abuse and other problems frequently facing teens.  It also hosts online forums, identifies warning signs and provides resources for where to turn for help.

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