Tag: HHS

Ad Council Joins the White House, HHS and CDC to Launch COPING-19 Campaign on Mental Health Struggles amid Covid-19 Pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

More than 40% of Americans report that they are struggling with mental health conditions as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, according to an August 2020 survey reported in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Week Report. The Ad Council is joining the White House, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CDC and the CDC Foundation to launch COPING-19, a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign aimed at raising awareness and providing Americans with tips and resources to help people who are…

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Leading Digital and Tech Platforms Join Ad Council, White House, HHS and CDC to Address COVID-19 Crisis

Stuart Mitchell

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ad Council, White House, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that they are partnering with leading digital and technology platforms, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, SiriusXM and Pandora, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter and Verizon Media, among others, to extend the reach and impact of critical COVID-19 response messaging. From custom filters to emojis to influencer content, digital and technology partners are leveraging their tools to connect their audiences with life-saving messages…

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Ad Council, along with White House, CDC, HHS and Major Media Networks, to Launch National PSAs in response to Coronavirus Pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ad Council is working in collaboration with the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and major media networks to launch a series of national public service ads (PSAs) and multi-channel content to provide critical and urgent messages to the American public. The creative assets focus on reaching high-risk populations and the general public with messages around social distancing, personal hygiene and mental health. The PSAs direct audiences to visit www.coronavirus.gov, a centralized…

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New PSAs focus on the importance of adopting teenagers from foster care

Stuart Mitchell

New public service advertisements (PSAs) launched today by the Children’s Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in partnership with the Ad Council, AdoptUSKids and KBS, highlight the importance of adopting teens from foster care and emphasize that adoptive and potential adoptive parents do not have to be a perfect parent in order to adopt youth from foster care. Older children in foster care, particularly teenagers, have a hard time being adopted from foster care. Of the estimated 428,000 youth in…

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