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Breaking The Stigma Surrounding Children's Mental Health
Breaking The Stigma Surrounding Children's Mental Health
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Dec 8, 2021
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Podcast episode
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In May 2021, to mark the launch of Mental Health Awareness Month, On Our Sleeves, the national movement for children’s mental health, set an ambitious goal to provide free mental health resources to more than 1 million teachers and classrooms across America. Just five months later, they surpassed that ambitious goal, reaching more than 1.1 million classrooms.Big Lots, a strong national sponsor and longtime partner of the movement joined as the Million Classroom Project’s first corporate partner, setting an ambitious goal of getting On Our Sleeves materials into 150,000 schools.In today's episode, Engage for Good's Alli Murphy is joined by Marti Bledsoe Post, Executive Director of On Our Sleeves, and Jeremy Ball, Vice President Internal Communications, Philanthropy and Events, at Big Lots to talk about the partnership and what they've learned along the way.Tune into today's episode to learn all about:Marti's advice for securing corporate partners in historically "taboo" cause areasJeremy's advice on corporate advocacy and how to get startedWhat the On Our Sleeves Movement and the Million Classroom Project areHow Big Lots is involved in the partnershipsHow the team refocused the One Our Sleeves mission and strategy amid the pandemicWhat's on the horizon for the partnershipLinks & Notes[On Our Sleeves Website] (https://www.onoursleeves.org/)[Big Lots Website] (https://www.biglots.com/)[Big Lots Community Page] (https://www.biglots.com/corporate/community)Elevate Your Social Impact[Sign up for Engage for Good's newsletter] (https://engageforgood.com/newsletter-signup/)[Check out past Cause Talk Radio episodes] (https://engageforgood.com/resources/podcasts/)[Access free resources] (https://engageforgood.com/)[Check out our monthly webinars] (https://engageforgood.com/webinars/)[Let Alli know what you think of the show!] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonmurphy541/)
Released:
Dec 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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