Make the Connection: Findings and Recommendations

Abstract

The materials designed to raise awareness of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA's) Make the Connection (MTC) campaign constitute one of four federally funded mental health public awareness campaigns that RAND is evaluating as part of a cross-agency evaluation (funded by the Department of Defense Psychological Health Center of Excellence) aimed a improving the mental health of service members and veterans. A cross-agency evaluation report describes the campaigns' overlapping and unique scope and content, as well as cross-campaign dissemination efforts. Based on the crossagency evaluation report, this brief about MTC awareness materials is one in a series examining the individual campaigns' messages, the consistency of messaging in their materials, and the tools they use to deliver content to their audiences. Because the results presented here are from an evaluation of the four campaigns' collective reach and impact, they are not intended to serve as a full and comprehensive evaluation of MTC. It should also be noted that this evaluation focuses on the materials designed to raise awareness of MTC and not on the functioning or operations of the campaign itself.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1096329

Entities

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Department Of Defense
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Intellectual Property
  • Materials
  • Mental Health
  • Military Families
  • Mobile Application Software
  • National Security
  • Online Communications
  • Public Policy
  • Recovery
  • Social Media
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.