For this project, I am working with Julia Beerman. We chose to do our project on Mental Illnesses. So far we have these sources to talk about and give examples of mental illnesses:
Advocacy Organization: http://letstalk.bell.ca/en/our-initiatives/ Mental Illnesses
https://www.ted.com/talks/sue_klebold_my_son_was_a_columbine_shooter_this_is_my_story
- Other ted talks
American Horror Story- Season 2
- Glorifying mental illness in the media (somewhat of a trend)
- https://www.theodysseyonline.com/short-article-open-ended-questions
Columbine (Book)
Carrie Fisher’s death
#BellLetsTalk→ creating a stigma free environment around mental illness in Canada (spilled over to the US)
- Donated 5 cents for every message (tweet, instagram, fb post) and raised $5,472,585.90
NAMI- National alliance on mental illness- http://www.nami.org
Demi Lovato
- http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a31029/demi-lovato-mental-health/
- http://www.bevocalspeakup.com/demi-lovato-bipolar-disorder.html
Relative to people our own age
Under obamacare mental health is covered, trump’s new plan???
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/policy-advocacy
- Cutting medicaid could hurt bc nearly 30% of people who used medicaid was because of a mental illness or addiction
- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/08/obamacare-repeal-jeopardizes-mental-health-addiction-coverage/96199628/
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mental-health-care-in-a-trump-administration-devastates_us_58b5944ee4b0658fc20f9a25
- http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-obamacare-repeal/
- There must be baseline coverage for mental illness in ACA
- Background on mental illnesses in America
A lot of people still go to prison when they commit crime bc of mental illness and don’t actually get the help they need
- Stanford Prison Experiment
- Kalief Browder
- Mental Illness Advocate v. Mental Health Advocate
The effect the media and policy have on people’s perception of mental illness.
http://ontario.cmha.ca/files/2012/07/olm_stigma_matters_200902.pdf
Ted Talk: Mental Illness From the Inside
https://www.ted.com/talks/elyn_saks_seeing_mental_illness
Top myths of mental illness:
https://www.mendthemind.ca/stigma/top-11-myths-about-mental-illness/
Be Vocal Collection:
- People with mental illnesses address their conditions and speak about what they went through/are going through
- http://www.bevocalspeakup.com/documentary.html
We decided to tackle this advocacy project in the way the media affects the public’s perception of mental illnesses. Media also affects the way that policies on this topic are created and implemented, thus giving us the opportunity to dive in to how the Trump Administration plans to handle it.
We will be doing a Podcast, where we include clips of advocates talking about the issue and tweets which include people’s personal opinions on the topic at hand.