Forward Feed Magazine – COVID-19: Survival Guide Issue for Teens

The Problems Facing Prevention Education

Reaching young people with effective prevention information is a tricky business. Digitally delivered content is often ignored, social media advertising is easy to miss and traditional broadcast media is difficult to produce and expensive to deploy. So what to do? Reason dictates that placing information directly into the hands of young people is an effective way to ensure that at least a prevention impression is made. But will they read it?

Our Solution

We created Forward Feed Magazine with the target audience, your high school and college-aged young people, in mind. Our idea was to use a magazine style format with cutting-edge design, filled with images of “relatable” young people, and packed with just the right amount of prevention information to change the attitudes and opinions of its readers.

We took great pains in developing and designing the content so that the main prevention message of each section is clearly identifiable at first glance. Bold headlines and main ideas take precedence. Readers may “drill down” for greater detail and nuance. Where possible, information is delivered by bullet point. Large text blocks have been eliminated, making way for smaller “chunks” of content. The design utilizes large, bold images, with a small text-to-image ratio to encourage reading.

Every #FWDFEED: COVID-19 Magazine includes information on:

• An introduction to COVID-19 and its toll on young people
• Routine changes students will find at school (wearing masks, social distancing, etc.)
• What makes COVID-19 dangerous, deadly, and contagious
• Symptoms (and extreme symptoms) of COVID-19 & what to expect during a COVID-19 test
• Examples of healthy ways to cope with stress
• Increased levels of substance abuse due to COVID-19 & the negative impact it has on teens
• Mental health & a corresponding quiz on discovering what your current stress level is
• The importance of making healthy choices and examples
• Different models of school schedules & the importance of following them to protect you and your friends from COVID-19
• Extracurriculars and school sports, and how they may look different to keep you safe from COVID
• The COVID-19 vaccine, its effect on minimizing the symptoms, and the questions surrounding them that still need answers
• Side effects you may experience after you get the COVID-19 vaccine and what to do after
• Optimistic outlook on the future, and the importance of everyone doing their part to wipe the disease out

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