Anti-Stigma Campaigns

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Days
Depression Awareness Week (Depression Alliance)
Mental Health Action Week (Annually - Spring - Mental Health Foundation)
World Alzheimer's Day (Annually - 21st September)
World Mental Health Day (Annually - 10th October)

England
CALM
Changing Minds (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
destigmatize (National Phobics Society)
It's a Goal (Macclesfield Town FC)
Media Action Group for Mental Health
Mentality 'Hats Off'
OpenUp (Mind)
Reversing the Stigma (Stigma.org.uk)
Shift (NIMHE Anti-Stigma Campaign)
Stand to Reason
Time to Change (£18m 4 yr initiative in England)

- View Rethink's first ever TV advert featuring Simon Gregson who plays Steve McDonald in Coronation Street.

- CALM has produced a video "Being Silent Isn't Being Strong" - to read about it please click here, and to go directly to the video please click here.

Scotland
See Me
Mind Your Head
One in Four

SeeMe Scotland have produced a tv ad which can be viewed here, and also on the BBC website (added 5th November 2006).

Australia
Australian National Mental Health Strategy
Beyond Blue
Mental Health Council of Australia
Mindframe
Sane, Stigmawatch

Canada
Check up from the Neck (Mood Disorders Assn)
Canadian Mental Health Association
Transforming Lives (Centre for Addiction and MH)
Stigma Busters Productions

New Zealand
Like Minds

Like Minds, Like Mine, New Zealand have prepared a number of TV and radio ads which can be viewed here.

Norway
TIPS Project

Singapore
Silver Ribbon Singapore Project

USA
ADS Center (SAMHSA)
Centre for Mental Health Services

Half of Us (celebrity interviews, including Mary J Blige & Pete Wentz & Max Bemis)

mpower musicians for mental health
National Institute of Mental Health
National Stigma Clearinghouse
No Stigma - National Mental Health Awareness
Open Minds Open Doors
Slient Heroes
Stamp Out Stigma
Stigmabusters (NAMI)

Take Action Tour

(1) Take Action Tour 2007 visits U.S. Congress. Highlights from the Take Action Tour press conference held in a House office building in DC on Jan. 31, 2007. Keynote speaker is longtime suicide prevention advocate Rep. Patrick Kennedy (MA-1). Ronnie Winter from The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus also is included on this highlight reel (if you need to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, please click here)

(2) Advertisement - 2007 (if you need to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, please click here)

What a Difference - 2006 - a $1 million public service campaign includes three ads for radio and three for TV (if you need to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player, please click here)

(1) Mental Health Anti-Stigma PSA - Door Knob

(2) Mental Health Anti-Stigma PSA - Friends

(3) Mental Health Anti-Stigma PSA - Video Game

Europe
Eufami

World
World Psychiatric Association (Open the Doors)

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