camh :: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Spread the
Understanding
Our mission was to bring mental illness
out of the shadows and turn it into a
mainstream conversation. To do this we used
dozens of hashtags to illustrate two
contrasting outcomes of mental illness.
With a multi-media campaign, we encouraged
the public to go to our website and help
us put a spotlight on the devastating ripple
effect mental illness can have on our
society when it goes untreated, as well as
the hope that’s created when it does get treated.
Watch the campaign video.
Press :: Back-to-back full-page
ads showed two contrasting stories of
people suffering from mental illness.
Digital :: Users were prompted to follow the story of a person who’s been touched directly by mental illness.
Television :: Viewers were encouraged to share their new understanding of mental illness.
Website :: On our website users were prompted to share their new understanding of mental illness in one of two ways. They could either share one of a dozen negative effects when it goes untreated or one of many positive effects when it does get treated.
