Shutting Down Stigma

Dominion High School

Students from Dominion High School in Sterling, Virginia interview various individuals involved with the National Alliance for Mental Illness about their activities in the Northern Virginia area. NAMI puts on a variety of events, focused on challenging the stigma of mental illness and spreading awareness on the positivity of treatment and acceptance.

Produced by Morgan Fischer, Alison Pataky, Sanchita Pandey, Karen Ramos. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Mitch Schwartz. Station support provided by the PBS NewsHour and WETA.

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Student Reporting Labs connect students with an innovative video journalism curriculum and a network of public broadcasting mentors to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports from a youth perspective.

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