Coming up really soon in October is Mental Health Week (MHW) from the 7th to 13th. This has been a project that I have been working on for a couple of weeks in the lead up to the events happening around Perth. Due to the fact that Relationships Australia (WA) is involved with promoting good mental health and healthy relationships MHW has been an event that we can utilize to show the West Australian public more on what we are doing. Through my work placement here I’ve realized that most young people have never heard about Relationships Australia before and the work that they do, which will hopefully be changing soon.
One of the pieces that I have been working on is the creation of a 10cm x 10cm advertisement for the West Australian newspaper. We were approached by the West to be apart of their mental health week feature and to provide a piece to go alongside the advertisement. I was given the task to contact the person in charge of the feature at the West and find out all the details on what was needed for the advertisement as well as how much it would cost us. This task gave me the opportunity to practise my phone and communication skills with a party outside of the organization (which was slightly nerve-wracking).
After I was given all the information I was now able to begin creating the advertisement and writing piece for the feature. I’ve never created an advert so it was a pretty useful tool to be able to use Adobe InDesign to create the entire thing. Let me just say how useful this program is (put your hand up if you’ve used this program and have just found it amazingly useful) in creating brochures, pamphlets and now advertisements.
For the writing piece I was given the task of promoting a new program that Relationships Australia was introducing during MHW. This writing piece was similar to a media release as it was short and to the point. There was a large amount of checking back and forth with the person in charge of the program to get the piece finished, which just showed me the importance of not just giving information but also writing it in a way which is non-offensive and in line with our organization.
If you've got time look out for the mental health week feature in the West for Relationships Australia.
I’m almost finishing my work placement here so I’ve been thinking about all the things that I’ve learnt from it. There’s actually been so much going on that I haven’t had a chance to think about it but it’s been good. Good luck to all the final reports everyone!
Angela
