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About Serious Media Representing
society’s most serious issues.
Ethos
Serious Media was established in 1998 to create
programmes that speak from the heart of serious social and cultural
issues.
Over more than a decade we have built a strong
reputation for accurate representation and for undertaking our work
with absolute sensitivity to the individuals we interview. We produce
educational training programmes, promotional features and profile
raising programmes which work to inform, advise, and challenge
misconceptions on a local, regional, national and international
platform.
Individual voices
Our primary objectives are:
- to give people a voice through multimedia.
- to empower disadvantaged groups by enabling
them to communicate issues in a way that is direct and honest, yet
constructive, informative and challenging.
- to promote greater understanding among
individuals, public sector organisations, businesses and with policy
and decision makers right up to European Parliament level.
Multimedia tools that raise the profile of
serious issues within every society; and equip support organisations
with the multimedia voice to affect change.
- Individuals themselves - Challenging myths and misconceptions which often have a strong
isolating influence, preventing individuals from accessing effective
support. Reaching
individuals who have not been able to talk about their experience
with the message that there are people they can talk to; that there
are organisations who will listen, support and walk with them.
- Public sector professionals - Health;
social services; mental health services; police; judicial system professionals.
Information,
advice and guidance to educate professionals as to how to ask
questions of patients and service users; how to respond effectively;
signposting individuals to support organisations. Training tools
that help professionals to understand the experiences that
individuals may have lived through and most importantly the issues
they really have to address and cope with; explaining through their
own personal experiences, the barriers they may have that prevent
them accessing support effectively.
- Policy makers and strategists - Providing insight, guidance and scope for policy makers to evaluate
the common links and impact of specific issues upon our statutory
services and thus the potential positive long term effects that
addressing essential issues could have in lessening the pressure of
so many misdiagnosed misunderstood individuals who currently access
and many of whom remain in the service for huge proportions of their
lives.
- Businesses - public and private sector employers - offering information, advice and guidance around issues affecting individuals in the workplace.
For any further information please
contact us directly - we will be delighted to hear from you.
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