Reaching Teens on Their Terms: Tailoring & Targeting Health Communications

February 14 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UTC+0

Webinar Description

All teens aren’t the same. Some teens are more at risk than others for different risk behaviors. Knowing the attitudes, values, and lifestyles of teens at-risk allows marketing campaigns to more effectively reach and persuade the teens who need us the most. Over the past 20 years, VFHY has been accumulating the most advanced and comprehensive understanding of teen’s social identities and how they relate to health risk behaviors to implement targeted and tailored health communications. During this session, we will share VFHY’s comprehensive youth prevention strategy including Behind the Haze, a vaping prevention campaign, Unfazed, a marijuana prevention campaign, and Hustle & Strive, a multi-substance prevention campaign. This session will demonstrate how each campaign uses research-based insights to develop messages that appeal to teens most at risk for the targeted behavior and how those same insights are used to deliver messages equitably.

  1. Understand how teen attitudes, values, and lifestyles are associated with substance use
  2. Analyze how a deeper understanding of teen lifestyles can be used to develop authentic narratives to change behaviors
  3. Explore messaging for different substances and different teens

Webinar Speaker

Behavior change is Jeffrey Jordan’s priority, evident in all his endeavors, from his academic research to his leadership at Rescue Agency. Jeff’s passion for behavior change began in high school when he volunteered for the teen tobacco prevention program at the Southern Nevada Health District. Observing the lack of marketing agencies that truly understood behavior change, he launched Rescue at the age of 17, a marketing agency focused exclusively on positive social change programs. While growing Rescue, Jeff studied Marketing for his undergraduate degree and received a Master’s in Experimental Psychology from UCSD. As the founder of a strategy called Social Branding®, Jeff focuses on the relationship between identity and behavior to change behavior through culture. This approach has been published in multiple books and is the subject of multiple peer-reviewed articles. Today, as Rescue’s President and Executive Creative Director, he’s led the company’s growth to a team of over 150 managing three dozen behavior change programs across North America, tackling issues such as tobacco, obesity, violence and drug use. Rescue’s work includes the FDA’s national tobacco prevention campaign for multicultural teens and its LGBT young adult effort, as well as active contracts with over a dozen state and local health departments. Rescue and it’s partners are committed to advancing the science of behavior change marketing, collaborating on over a dozen published scientific articles.

Free Registration

This event was pre-recorded at the 2023 Champions for Youth Summit. 

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