Access to campaign info, resources, and everything you need to implement #CreateConnectCare in your class or organization.
Get straight to creating and sharing your creative voice with your peers about the importance of youth mental health and well-being.
How To Participate
Mental health is just as important as physical health but is often misunderstood or ignored.
Use your creativity to raise awareness of mental health by describing your experiences.
Think about… how it feels to live as a person with mental health struggles. What it’s like to care for someone who has a mental health challenge. What causes you stress, anxiety, or your mental health struggles?
Stigma, prejudice, and discrimination against people with mental illness take many forms and can lead to harm.
Use your creativity to start the conversation about stigma.
Think about… how stigma has affected you or someone you know. What can others do to help break the stigma?
Studies show that connecting with others can alleviate stress, anxiety, and depression.
Use your creativity to express how connecting with your peers or the larger community has positively impacted your mental health.
Think about it…How do you connect with others? How has the help of your peers, teachers, parents, or healthcare providers improved your mental well-being?
Self-care can play a role in maintaining your mental health and help support your treatment and recovery if you have a mental illness.
Use your creativity to explore what self-care means to you.
Think about it…How do you take care of your physical, mental, and emotional health How do these activities help you feel better?
Literary Arts: Short stories, essays, poetry, scripts, graphic novels. Submissions in this category are not to exceed 1,000 words.
Visual Arts: Drawings, paintings, graphic design, photography, memes, and designed social media posts.
Performing Arts: Dance, theater, spoken word, music.
Media Arts: PSAs, film/video. Submissions in this category are not to exceed three minutes.
STEM: Robotics, digital design, gaming.
Tell us about your submission and share what you hope others will think or feel when they see it.
The accepted file types for attachments are MP4, MOV, JPG, PNG, GIF, DOC, DOCX, and PDF.
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