On July 18, Entertainment & Media Communication
Institute of the Entertainment Industries Council (eic), in collaboration with National Association
of Broadcasters (NAB) and KTVU as well as other media and community partners, sponsored
the “Picture This: Mental Health in the San Francisco Bay Area” forum, held in
Oakland, California. The focus of the gathering
was to bring the media, entertainment industry, and mental health community
together to talk about media portrayals of mental health and related issues. Kavoos Bassiri (RAMS CEO) and Christine Tam,
LCSW (RAMS Director of Peer Counseling Services) were invited to participate in
this forum. The forum’s goal is to work
together (media and mental health community) in partnership in order to have
positive, accurate, diverse, respectful & personal stories of mental health
be portrayed in the media. Representatives
from the media, entertainment industry, state & local community partners,
mental health professionals, and consumer advocates held roundtable work groups and engaged in
discussions to come up with action items on which they plan to work together to
promote mental health and stories on mental/behavioral health in the media. In moving forward, there are plans to publish
findings and recommendations from this forum to inform other media outlets in
the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally on changing social perception on
mental/behavioral health and related issues.
You can check out RAMS CEO being interviewed by KTVU's Dave Clark:
Click HERE if you are unable to view the video above.
Click HERE to view video clips from the forum and interviews with other organizations and representatives, and follow @MediaTEAMup on Twitter and visit TeamUp online!
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