Media Pitch Writing: 79% of college-going students face some mental challenge.

Pitch to Rebecca Dube, a mom, Editor of Today Parents, and the Today Parenting Team (Today Parenting, 2023). 

Subject: Pitch: 79% of college-going students face some mental challenge.

The Pitch:

Hello Rebbeca, 

I am a concerned parent of a high schooler and volunteer at a middle school to provide students with the much-needed professional support of counselors and activities for their well-being. 

However, to create more awareness about college-going students' mental challenges, I am interested in writing about what society and parents need to know earlier to support them in high school and middle school—to build them up with more confidence and closer to family and friends who understand them. This will be of great help to their mental well-being. Counselors and support staff at colleges can provide much-needed professional mental care. However, awareness about it will inform parents and their wards about which colleges have these facilities and request other colleges to include certain facilities.  

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (Murthy, 2021) and a national survey 2022-23 highlight the necessity of more than acknowledging the existence of mental health. 49% of 76,406 students who participated had symptoms of anxiety or depression, and 14% seriously considered committing suicide (Eisenberg et al., 2023). The Infographic below shows students' mental health challenges (Bryant & Welding, 2023).

Anxiety seems to be the main challenge due to academic pressures, financial obligations, worry for their future, and more (Bryant & Welding, 2023). If they know they need mental help to tackle anxiety, they will only reach out and be able to learn to manage stress better.  Moreover, statistics show that 30% do not know where to seek help at colleges when needed (Eisenberg et al., 2023). The proposed article will inform parents of the need to provide holistic well-being early in life. As a concerned mom with experience providing activities to assist in mental well-being, it equips me with the right understanding of the topic and connection with the audience to write the article.

 

To ensure we make the mental health support system a deciding factor in choosing colleges, we should move towards it as a society. 

 

I look forward to hearing from you

Nuing LD
A concerned mom, communicator, and volunteer for a better society for the next generation
Email: cre8tivenittygritty@gmail.com
Phone:334-009-4455

Plan to Customize the Pitch for

1.      Grown and flown https://grownandflown.com/

2.      College Parents of America https://collegeparents.org/

 

Reference

Bryant, J. & Welding, L. (February 15, 2023). College Student Mental Health Statistics. Best

    Colleges. https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-student-mental-health-statistics/

Eisenberg. D. Lipson. K.S. Heinze. J. Zhou. S. 2023. The Healthy Minds Study. 2022-23 Data

     Report. https://healthymindsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/HMS_National-Report-

     2022-2023_full.pdf

Ordway. D.M. September 13, 2023. Improving college student mental health: Research on

       promising campus interventions. The Journalists Resource.

       https://journalistsresource.org/education/college-student-mental-health-research-

       interventions/

Murthy, V. H. (2021). Protecting Youth Mental Health: Surgeon General of the United States.

       U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

        https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-youth-mental-health-advisory.pdf

Today Parenting. 2023. https://www.today.com/Parents.

 Disclaimer: created as part of the requirements for a writing assignment and not meant to be published nor to represent the organization(s) listed herein