December 01, 2008
WORLD AIDS DAY: REMEMBER TO PLAY SAFE!
By
Katherine Dodds
As we work on the new video for Chee Mamuk (STI Division of the BC Centre for Disease Control) with youth from the Sto:lo Nation (and a few others) I am feeling very privileged to get to work with such great people on projects that I really believe will have an impact. Don't Stress the Tests is an excerpt of the video we did last year with youth in Chemainus.
Later this month we will be launching "Strong Path" at a community event with the Sto:lo Nation.
In a different corner of the STI division we are also working with the film Bevel Up. (directed by master-story teller Nettie Wild). Bevel Up follows the team of street nurses in Vancouver's downtown East side as they work with drug users, most of whom are also homeless.
These projects represent two sides of the same specturm: working with youth around prevention of STIs and promotion of healthy choices; and working with those who are already facing issues of addiction, poverty and more -- to offer them ways to make healthier choices. To get tested, to get treatment, and to find some digniity and hope in the midst of a situation many find hopeless.
Tag(s):
Aboriginal,
First Nations,
Focus Testing,
Film Launch,
Graphic Design,
Hello Cool World,
Marketing,
Sexual Health,
Social Marketing,
Strategy,
Teens and Dating,
Video Workshops,
Video,
Youth
Recent Blogs by Katherine Dodds:
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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