Tag: mental health

Combat Stress and the Ministry of Defence announce new partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Combat Stress and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) have announced a new partnership to provide an out of hours mental health helpline to serving personnel. From midday on Sunday 25 February servicemen and women will have a new number to use when calling the Combat Stress helpline. The MOD will support the new number with the biggest internal marketing campaign on mental health they’ve ever run. The MOD has committed to giving Combat Stress £50,000 in the next financial year to cover the cost of the helpline team taking calls…

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National Millennial Community joins the HackerAgency to Create PSAs to Bring Awareness to Cyberbullying

Stuart Mitchell

To bring awareness to the growing number of suicides among young teens and the devastating effects of cyberbullying, the National Millennial Community – a nationwide millennial movement founded by IW Group Inc.– has joined HackerAgency, a global digital/direct marketing agency, to create a series of public service announcements addressing this major mental health issue.   Suicide is the number three killer of teens; twenty percent of adolescents who are bullied online contemplate suicide, and about 1 in 10 attempt suicide, according to research done by CyberbullyHotline. “Millennials recognize that we…

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DentsuWebchutney’s Project Re-Search gets adults to go beyond Blue Whale Challenge

Stuart Mitchell

DentsuWebchutney, the digital advertising agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, revealed Project Re-Search, an initiative started in November to measurably increase mental health awareness in India, starting with its first campaign, Beyond the Blue Whale. The campaign turns a Google search for the Blue Whale Challenge and its associated terms to a search for mental health difficulties in children, instead. This undercover search campaign has been active since November 2017, attempting to divert traffic from all ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ related searches, to relevant topics around mental health. Late 2017, the Blue…

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New War Child Film highlights the psychological effects of war

Stuart Mitchell

Charity Warchild have launched a new film which highlights the devastating effects of war on childhood mental health and wellbeing. The video highlights the important issue of the strain that conflict can have on the mental health of children who have been affected by war, long after they have left the actual war zone. This film is viewed as part of the charities wider work prioritising the provision of mental health and psychosocial services for children affected by conflict, and their communities. This emotional film follows a small robot as…

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Nine out of ten us believe in reaching out with a brew, says Samaritans

Stuart Mitchell

This year the Samaritans undertook a campaign to turn Blue Monday (15 Jan) into Brew Monday by encouraging people to get together for a cup of tea and a chat on what has been dubbed the most difficult day of the year. They believe tea and talking is a great way to connect with people. Nine out of ten of those who responded to a YouGov survey commissioned for Brew Monday believe having a cuppa and a chat with someone who may be lonely is a good way of reaching…

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