Picture This: Mental Health

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EIC has developed a model to collaborate with Congressional Representatives, local TV stations and mental health stakeholders to bring greater understanding and access to community mental health services in local cities across the United States.

The purpose of Picture This: A Local Approach to Mental Health is to enrich the opportunities for the local story tellers, news providers (broadcast, print and online) and local officials to address mental health-related stories with a high degree of accuracy, so that audiences will be gain greater knowledge and correct misunderstandings.

The goal is to develop an understanding between media and advocates through a process that convenes leadership, develops consensus, and effectively communicates for the benefit of the public health.

The specific objectives:

1. Convene leadership that represent the following constituencies – research, practice, consumers, policy advocates;

2. Develop Consensus on key issues – identify the top issues within the mental health conversation;

3. Communicate – disseminate the top issues (and related information) to local news representatives and the entertainment industry to encourage stories in print / broadcast journalism and online news platforms and accurate on-screen depictions and story lines…to Picture This!