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Children's Mental Health Awareness Day 2013: Empowering Young Adults for Successful Futures

Celebrating Children's Mental Health Awareness Day on April 18, 2013, this event focuses on empowering young adults aged 16-24, with particular emphasis on those 18+. Through the support of adult allies, we aim to enhance social connectedness, housing, employment, and education opportunities. We invite young parents, older siblings, and mentors to participate in events, contests, and discussions. Learn about mental health challenges among young adults and discover ways to promote resilience and hope in our communities. Visit SAMHSA for resources and event materials.

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Children's Mental Health Awareness Day 2013: Empowering Young Adults for Successful Futures

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  1. Safe Schools/Healthy SchoolsOffice Hours 2013 Children’s Mental HealthAwareness Day Presented by: Adrienne Dealy, Communications Specialist April 18, 2013

  2. Children’s Mental HealthAwareness Day May 9, 2013

  3. Focus This year’s national theme focuses on young adults, 16-24 (especially those 18+) who, with the help of adult allies, can be successful in terms of social connectedness, housing, employment and education. Local and state activities can focus on other age groups.

  4. Audiences For SSHS grantees, potential audiences are: Young parents who fall in the 16-24 age range Older siblings of young children Mentors to young children OR Grantees can use messages from past years to focus on other age groups.

  5. National Theme Messaging In 2011, SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 29.8% of young adults, age 18-25, reported having experienced a mental, behavioral or emotional disorder in the past year. In addition, 35.2% of young adults used illicit drugs in the past year.

  6. National Theme Messaging Young adults with behavioral health challenges can be resilient with the help of family, friends, providers and other Heroes of Hope. Visit samhsa.gov/children to learn more.

  7. Activities Press conference Website Events (such as a wellness fair) Contests (for example, a poster or artwork contest with a mental health awareness theme)

  8. It’s not too late! Last-minute activities: Webinar Press conference Community meeting Media outreach: Op-ed Guest column Letter to the editor

  9. Social media Promote your messages on your social media platforms: Facebook – ask questions about your message and encourage feedback YouTube – link to student-generated videos or videos showing children’s mental health in action Twitter – share quick facts about your topic

  10. Sample Tweets Pple with serious #mentalhealth challenges less likely than peers to enroll in postsecondary #education http://1.usa.gov/15WLs7k #HeroesofHope Young adults w/ serious #mentalhealth disorders experience higher rates of unemployment http://1.usa.gov/ZUoyqY via @samhsagov #HeroesofHope

  11. Activities Examples of activities from previous year’s campaigns: http://projectlaunch.promoteprevent.org/childrens-mental-health-awareness-day

  12. Resources SAMHSA’s Awareness Day resources, event materials, conference and meetings: http://www.samhsa.gov/children/

  13. Questions? Adrienne Dealy Communications Specialist AdrienneDealy@mac.com 512-922-3725

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