Building Trust and Improving Outcomes
in Communities of Color Workshop Series

Workshop Handouts and Additional Resources
Provided by MEE Productions

Join MEE’s Community Network

The MEE Community Network is a community of service providers, community gatekeepers, and educators representing community-based organizations, non-profits, foundations and academic institutions across the country. Members of the MEE Community Network are partners with MEE in a socially-responsible approach to audience research, public health and social awareness campaigns, and appropriate marketing within the community. The Network is simple and free to join and most communication will be via email or MEE’s Facebook Page.

Other MEE Websites

Be Present Campaign
MEE developed this statewide social marketing campaign for the Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS). The Be Present campaign is focused on primary prevention of mental health issues among youth and young adults. The campaign educates and empowers peers, friends, classmates and siblings of at-risk youth to “step up” and provide needed support. It also makes youth more aware of and able to address their own emotional state.

Heard Not Judged

MEE’s latest national research project shows that the creative use of mobile digital technology could be an effective tool to help boys and young men of color (BMOC) overcome adversity and achieve their goals. In this new report and video series, Heard, Not Judged: Insights Into the Talents, Realities and Needs of Young Men of Color, MEE adds the voices of 18 to 24 year-old men of African and Hispanic descent, from nine U.S. cities, to a dialogue about their place in the “American Dream.” This project explored whether a brand-driven, private-sector approach, using technology the millennial generation already embraces, could help erase disparities and reduce inequities that have put many boys and young men of color at a competitive disadvantage. These young men open up about their lives—the everyday challenges they face, who matters to them (and who doesn’t) and who they can trust, their inherent skills and talents, along with the need for access to jobs, education, mentoring and holistic wellness. The research was co-funded by The California Endowment and the Open Society Foundations.