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In 2012, NAMI-New York and JWT Ethos created the #IWILLLISTEN campaign to combat the negative stigma associated with mental illness. During the spring of 2014, I had the opportunity to join them in creating a campus-focused campaign activation plan to be rolled out nationally in the fall of 2014. The campaign included on-campus outreach at the Union, the University Program Council (UPC) spring concert, the annual Red & White football scrimmage and a campaign-sponsored yoga class at the Rec Center.
All of the events were supported with social media using the #IWILLLISTEN hashtag. The social media content included local facts about mental illness at UNL, reminders about upcoming #IWILLLISTEN events, and updates on pledges. The campaign partnered with prominent and like-minded groups on campus to help distribute the message and to create videos by campus leaders and influencers, including Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Dr. Pat Tetreault, Assistant Director of the LGBTQA+ Resource Center and Charlie Foster, an on-campus licensed healthcare practitioner.
At the conclusion of the week, the campaign had reached an audience of over 90,000 in person, 90,000 on social media and received over 550 in-person