Suggestions for Hospitals and Health Clinics

• See if your local hospital is planning any seminars and/or public lectures during MIAW that could promote the campaign. If nothing is planned, offer to forward information about MIAW and help them get involved.
  
  
• Hold a panel discussion, host a public workshop or bring in a high profile speaker to the hospital, agency or clinic where you work.
  
  
• Contact your local community health clinic to make sure that it is aware of MIAW; organize a briefing session and circulate promotional material. Ask to organize an information session or open house to demonstrate the multidisciplinary approaches taken toward mental health and rehabilitation.
  
  
• Ask your doctor to help organize an event. Involve family and consumer groups in any events planned at hospitals or clinics.
  
  
• Set up information booths at your community health clinic or hospital; organize information fairs with the participation of several hospitals and health clinics in your area.
  
  
• Hold a poetry, short story writing or poster/art contest on mental illness. Publish the best submissions in the hospital newsletter or magazine.
  
  
• Hold a raffle or bake sale. Instead of charging money for a ticket to win a prize, have people answer a question about mental illness to win.