We were lucky enough to partner with Pepper - Your Business BFF on this promotional video for SMART Options Inc.
Smart Options is a government funded supportive employment agency that supports employers in hiring job seekers with developmental disabilities.
While it was great to partner with our friends at Pepper and promote such a wonderful local organization, the best part of this project by far was getting to know Vince and telling his inspiring story.
We are so very proud to have worked on this film for the TRU Foundation Gala recently, helping to raise $130,000 towards purchasing a high-fidelity mannequin for the University's Nursing Students.
A huge thank you to the heart and soul of this video, Lauren Martin and her daughter Harper for sharing a small piece of their incredible story, detailing Harper's journey battling Cystic Fibrosis.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and in light of this we thought it would be appropriate to share a film we worked on earlier this year with the Housing Industry Association Charitable Foundation in Australia. A huge thank you to Trevor Renison for sharing his very personal experience and story with us.
In Australia, construction workers are twice as likely to commit suicide than people in other industries, and industry apprentices are two and a half times more likely to commit suicide than other young people their age. These alarming statistics are one of the reasons the HIACF reached out to us, in the hope of creating a film with a story and a message loud enough that it would be heard by the people who are most at risk.
The film was screened at both the National Apprenticeship Awards and also the National Housing Awards, and is now shown to every single Australian apprentice during their training. It is my hope that this film will shed some light on the topic of suicide, and the signs to not only look out for but act on, if you happen to recognize them in friends, family or colleagues who may be suffering in silence.
I am so honoured to share this incredible story, which we had the pleasure of working on with the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation.
Mike and his family are truly beautiful people, and we are so grateful to have been given the opportunity to get to know them and to tell their inspiring story.
