Minorities:
Healthy & Happy Living

Using media to inform educate and bring awareness to everyday strategies that everyday people can use everyday to create a healthy, happy life while living with various mental illnesses. Ethnic minorities and diverse lifestyles will be represented in animated illustration to depict who they are and how they impact mental illness and provide tools ideas for overcoming a range of illnesses. Minorities will be used to represent the cross section of people impacted by mental illness and will include, Latinx (including Puerto Ricans), African Americans, Asian Americans, Arab and other Middle Eastern Americans, Native Americans, Native Hawai'ians and other Pacific Islanders, and Alaska Natives. I will create animation to showcase how to cope with everyday life which will include writing in journals, practicing mindfulness, walks in nature, spending time with pets and friends, exercising, cooking and practicing healthy living habits.            Working Title: Minorities: Healthy & Happy Living