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Council discusses youth-voice billboard and packet distribution for mental‑health outreach
Summary
Members weighed joining an existing Communities That Care youth-voice campaign to produce anonymous youth reflections for a billboard and planned distribution of mental‑health packets (rocks, flyers) through schools and local sites; no formal vote was taken.
Park County advisers discussed options to place a mental‑health billboard and to distribute assembled mental‑health packets around the community.
Laurie Bishop described a Communities That Care campaign that would collect anonymous youth reflections for a billboard and suggested aligning the council’s billboard idea with that campaign if timing permits. Members emphasized anonymity for youth submissions and proposed alternate or complementary messaging that would reach other age groups — seniors, veterans and males aged 30–60 — if the council desired broader coverage.
The group also reviewed a recent rock‑painting outreach event and confirmed there are enough decorated rocks and materials to assemble packets. Denise Fisher volunteered to distribute packets to high-school and middle-school locations, the forthcoming school community organizations event, and other community sites such as laundromats and the food pantry. Members agreed to use the council’s presence at an upcoming health fair to hand out materials and to continue planning for a February billboard slot if the campaign timing does not align earlier.
No formal vote was taken; members asked Laurie and staff to check campaign timing and report back. "If that timing is not going to work, we'll at least know that so we have some time to pull something else together," Laurie said.
The council emphasized partnering with existing campaigns where practical and using anonymous youth input rather than identifying young people on materials.
