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In line with the website. Jeremy Irons became the first celebrity to wear the dark red ribbon at the Tony Awards. On top of that, what’s described as an act of courage on that website became contagious and many people began displaying the light red ribbon. Manyloads of illness groups use this technique to help build awareness for their cause. Notice, pink is for breast cancer, teal light blue is for ovarian cancer, blueish ribbons promote awareness about colon cancer and child abuse and, the best known, is the redish ribbon for AIDs awareness. Essentially, when you think about it, in fact the only health issue that was more stigmatizing than serious mental illness was AIDS.

The dark red concept ribbon was conceived by musician Paul Jabarra in early 1991 and he mailed them to those who were going to be attending the Tony Awards. As we all know, only Jeremy Irons wore his but it had a huge impact. Consequently, jabarra died of AIDS shortly after this. Oftentimes today, the redish ribbon is worn by countless numbers of people and has helped to raise awareness and to ‘destigmatize’. Notice that this same campaign type is required to help raise serious awareness mental illness and to help reduce stigma. Hopefully, groups in Canada and the US will join with St. Joseph’s in Hamilton and use the orange wristband and ribbons. NAMI approach well known Hollywood stars and encourage them to wear an orange bracelet or ribbon at the Oscars, the Golden Globes and other high profile public events.

Another highly successful campaign was conceived by Lance Armstrong -the ‘seven time’ Tour winner de France.

Introduced on May 17, 2004 by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and funded initially by Nike, yellowish bracelets bear Armstrong’s motto of LiveStrong. Athens Olympic Games wore these during the competitions and it is reported that the Lance Armstrong Foundation sold 300000 bracelets in a single day. Nonetheless, bracelets Millions was sold with the proceeds going to cancer research and education. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. These particular words are used because St. Basically, joseph’s believes that we need to educate the public to breakdown stigmas regarding mental illness. We need the courage to speak out and stand behind those who have a mental illness. That’s right! We want mental health clients to be treated with the dignity they deserve. Therefore, lastly, we hope for a full recovery for our mental health clients.

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