Video Instructions

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  Video Guidelines

1. Length: Please keep your video to one minute or less.
2. Start with:
   • Your name, and
   • The organization or agency you represent.
     (Example: “Hello, I’m Jane Doe, Oakland County Executive.”)

Choose one topic from the list below to focus your message:

The Power of Connection

Prompt:
Share how human connection, kindness, or community engagement supports mental health and well-being.
Example focus points: Reducing isolation, building belonging, community resilience, small acts that make a big difference.

Prevention Starts With Us

Prompt:
Reflect on why prevention—whether substance misuse, suicide, or other behavioral health challenges—must begin at the community level.
Example focus points: Early intervention, youth education, safe spaces, stigma reduction.

Talking About Mental Health Changes Everything

Prompt:
Discuss why open conversations about mental health are vital to creating a healthier, more compassionate community.
Example focus points: Normalizing help-seeking, breaking stigma, the role of leaders and workplaces in promoting dialogue.

The Social Roots of Wellness

Prompt:
Highlight how social determinants—such as housing, food access, education, transportation, or equity—impact community well-being.
Example focus points: Addressing barriers, promoting fairness, supporting those most at risk.

Bloom Forward: What Wellness Means to You

Prompt:

Share what “Bloom Forward” means personally or professionally—and how your organization or community helps others grow in mind, body, and spirit.
Example focus points: Resilience, hope, growth, compassion, innovation in wellness. 

Recording Tips:

• Speak authentically- let your voice inspire others to take action for wellness.
• Film in a quiet, well-lit space.
• Record horizontally if possible.
• Feel free to wear your organization’s logo or include your banner in the background. 
• Film in a quiet, well-lit space.

Uploading Your Video

• Select the folder for your topic →   click upload → choose your video 
• The video will take a minute to optimize, depending on size
• Once it is optimized, you will be able to add a title and/or description

For technical support please contact maddie@wordsofhope4life.com.   For all other questions please contact glen@wordsofhope4life.com