Please reach out to other organizations, companies, individuals or community groups in your network to join us in activating on Mental Health Action Day.
Here are simple guides to help you find out more and get your community involved.
Mental Health Action Champions are network partners who are innovating, managing, and customizing a sector-specific strategy powered by Mental Health Action Day.
Mental Health Action Day is an open source movement. We encourage partners to share their excitement with the press and promote their own activities and partnerships leading up to May 19th.
Use the messaging guidance and GIFs below on your digital and social media channels to continue to shift your community to take action and support each other. Don't forget to use and promote the hashtag #MentalHealthAction.
Mental health can be a tough topic to talk about. Here are some basic guidelines to make sure you encourage and empower your audience to take action.
Shareable Resources
Don't forget to use the hashtag #MentalHealthAction on social media platforms.And thanks to our friends at TikTok we have an exclusive hashtag that you should use if you're posting there: #LetsTalkMentalHealth. Let's get trending!
Sample Posts
Don't forget to use the hashtag #MentalHealthAction
Promote resources that empower and enable your community to take action on their mental health. You can point to resources you already have, partner resources, or the Mental Health Is Health website powered by MTV.
Announcement of Mental Health Action Day
Share this on May 19
Digital and Social Graphics
Download these graphics for use on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and as owned or paid digital banners. Keep in mind that all of these graphics were designed for you to customize with your logo, to be added to the bottom right corner.
Video
Please download the video file(s) to use and post on your own digital platforms. (There is a download button on the right-hand side of each link.)
These are all Mental Health Action Day branded and for use by any partner organization. They are available in 2 formats, 1x1 for digital and 1920x1080 for broadcast.
Newsletter Blurb
If you communicate with your community via a newsletter, please consider including information about Mental Health Action Day in your next issue.
Sample Blurb
In partnership with more than 1600 brands, nonprofits, government agencies and cultural leaders, [ORG NAME] is proud to be a partner in Mental Health Action Day this Thursday, May 19th. On this day, we will encourage and empower people to take the next step for #MentalHealthAction. Go to MentalHealthActionDay.org to learn more and join our effort to shift from awareness to action on mental health.
Head to MentalHealthisHealth.us [feel free to include any resource your organization would like to use; this is just one option] to get started with ways that you can take action for yourself or a friend on Mental Health Action Day. There is no-one-size-fits-all action, but rather, this is an open source effort for all who want to use their megaphones to drive our culture of mental health from awareness to action.
Sample Blurb for Mental Health Action Day
Today is Mental Health Action Day! This is the day to take action on your own mental health, as well as supporting those you love. From taking a moment for yourself to connecting with a friend, taking action on mental health can be easy. If you don’t know where to start, check out MentalHealthisHealth.us [feel free to include any resource your organization would like to use; this is just one option] a new resource designed to help those just getting started on their mental health journey. Join [ORG NAME] in spreading the word using #MentalHealthAction and help us move from a culture of awareness to action. Whether you take that first action for yourself, for your loved ones, or for your community - together we can move the needle on our collective wellbeing.
Zoom Backgrounds
Add a Mental Health Action Day Zoom background to your daily meetings to build awareness with clients and partners about the upcoming day.
BackGround
Brand Guide
Mental Health Action Day is open source. If you are making your own graphics feel free to use these resources to make sure it's consistent with other partners' materials.