Family Support Niagara - Getting Social
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Using Social Media for Advocacy and Support
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21-Oct-2014 -
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This presentation was given to the Family Mental Health Support Niagara. We wanted to help these amazing caregivers an overview of how social media can keep them connected to friends and family, provide support and can help them become advocates for their loved one and mental health.
Transcript of Family Support Niagara - Getting Social
Using Social Media for Advocacy and Support
What We’re Going to Talk About
• What is Social Media?
• Personal - using social media to maintain or reconnect with my friends, family and acquaintances.
• Support - using social media to find others with a common experience or situation to find support and share experiences.
• Advocacy - using social media to create your own community to advocate change - stigma, raise money, provide support to others.
What is Social Media?
Social media enables people to share opinions, insights and experiences on the web using tools to connect, interact and maintain and develop
relationships.
Or more simply: I want to connect with people to share my
knowledge and experiences.
It’s about: Sharing, Connecting…it’s about Relationships.
Becoming an Advocate
“If we talk about the absurdity of mental illness stigma it will begin to disappear. If we can share the common story of how mental illness affects our lives, we will see it for what it is — a variation of the human condition. To harbour mental illness stigma is to harbour a stigma against humanity.”– Michael Schratter – www.ridedonthide.com
Using Social Media for Advocacy and Support
