To rid Tarrant County of the stigma related to mental illness, Mental Health Connection and Community Solutions of Fort Worth kicked off a multi-year anti-stigma communications campaign in May 2005.

Please feel free to use these materials in your community. We only ask that you let us know you are using them and that you give credit to Mental Health Connection of Tarrant County and Community Solutions of Fort Worth.

Campaign materials include:

• Teen Posters in English
• Teen Poster in Spanish
• Teen Bookmark in English
• Teen Bookmark in Spanish
• 2 Television public service announcements in English and Spanish
• Newspaper in Education supplement: “A Guide to Understanding Mental Illness”
• Glossary of Mental Health/Mental Illness Terminology
• Curriculum for 6th-12th grade: “Eliminating the Stigma of Barriers” – five days including sample in-class and homework assignments (HINT: We recommend saving this PowerPoint presentation to your Desktop instead of opening it. It is a large file and can take a good deal of time to open directly from the Web site.)
• Teacher’s Guide – slide-by-slide talking points
• Street banner
• Bus ad featuring Caucasian woman
• Bus ad featuring African-American teen girl
• Bus ad featuring Hispanic teen boy
• Billboards in English
• Billboard in Spanish
• Workplace Poster 1
• Workplace Poster 2
• Payroll Stuffer 1
• Payroll Stuffer 2
• Bus Bench Ad

 

The posters, bookmarks, PSAs, Glossary, curriculum and Teacher’s Guide are available at no charge to individuals or groups who want to join the fight against the stigma of mental illness. The artwork for the street banner, bus ads and billboards is also available and can be localized. To order:

Call
Kay Barkin, Social Marketing Coordinator
817-258-8094

E-mail
kbarkin@uwmtc.org

Write
Kay Barkin
Mental Health Connection of Tarrant County
210 E. Ninth Street
Fort Worth, TX  76102