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MENTAL HEALTH REPORTING Marie Gallo Dyak and Scott Dorman What is - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
MENTAL HEALTH REPORTING Marie Gallo Dyak and Scott Dorman What is - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
COMMUNICATION TOOLS: MENTAL HEALTH REPORTING Marie Gallo Dyak and Scott Dorman What is TEAM Up? Tools for Entertainment and Media TEAM Up provides resources to news and entertainment industry professionals to depict mental health issues
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Mental Health Reporting Style Guide and Tool Kit
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Key Messaging Points
- Assessing relevance of mental health status
to story
- Using reliable sources for reporting a
diagnosis
- Choosing words for accuracy and clarity
- Avoiding reinforcement of stereotypes and
stigma
- Using person-first language
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Implementation: Facilitator
AP Stylebook: The “Journalist’s Bible”
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Implementation: Facilitator
Endorsements from Media Associations
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Implementation: Facilitator
Newsroom Briefings Already Presented at (for example):
– Riverside Press-Enterprise – Orange County Register – San Jose Mercury News – Contra Costa Times – Oakland Tribune – KQED – Patch (NoCal)/AOL/Huffington Post
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Implementation: Barriers
Journalists are busy High turnover rate Reporters don’t control headlines Mental health not a priority “If it bleeds, it leads.”
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Impact
- AP Stylebook entry will be used by nearly
every journalist/communicator in the U.S.
- Have trained more than 300 journalists in
dozens of newsrooms, with many more to come
- Materials being distributed through NAB
and RTDNA to their members
- Spanish Mental Health Reporting Style
Guide used by Univision
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Recommendations for Counties
- Make sure the language and framing you use
when talking with the media mirrors the Mental Health Reporting Style Guide
- Share the Style Guide and Toolkit with your
local media
- Partner with TEAM Up to schedule
newsroom briefings for your local media
- Develop relationships with journalists
before there is a crisis
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Sustainability Considerations
- Work at management level toward
newsroom policy adoption
- Partner with journalist associations to
disseminate to their members
- Train students – the next generation of
journalists
- Build organizational capacity within the
community to work effectively with the media
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