After a two month wait, we finally got the chance to have a meeting with our #CMSHS friends! Our first scheduled meeting in December was postponed due to snowy weather, so the FoM Team was excited to finally get to work with these students!
We chose to bring a #TacoBell lunch and the food line was quite long! But once the food was distributed, close to 40 students were ready to get to work learning more about what being in FoM means. We emphasized our main goals are awareness, education, and stigma reduction.
After talking about positive use of social
media to produce social change, we gave students our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook addresses. Guiding them on the easiest way to get started, we suggested that they post something about currently being at the Friend of MHINDS meeting.
media to produce social change, we gave students our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook addresses. Guiding them on the easiest way to get started, we suggested that they post something about currently being at the Friend of MHINDS meeting.
Our Twitter feed started exploding with new followers and tweets. (We've found that each school seems to prefer different social media platforms -- which is so cool, because that's an identifying characteristic of their particular school culture!)
When we ended the lunch meeting, our team was so energized by this group's enthusiasm! Best part is that the tweets kept coming the rest of the day and it even included a few tweets that stated -- "I should have gone to the @FriendofMHINDS meeting today. I definitely won't miss the next one."
WOW :)
Kristin Melton, FoM Team
Project Connect Social Marketing Coordinator
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