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Public Relations Campaign GCP
1. Homeless LGBTQ Youth in Tampa
and St. Petersburg
Seth Affatato, Jennifer Grier, Morgan Mendoza, Verliz Williams
2. Situational Analysis
Strengths:
❖ Public Opinion: Major support from the public in the past few years.
❖ PR: Focused Public Relations campaign with clear goals and strategies.
❖ Cohesive Team: Skilled team with great synergy.
Weaknesses:
❖ Small online presence: Establishing a large internet following will be a challenge for our campaign.
❖ Large number of those in need: There’s no way that we will be able to help all those who need it
unfortunately.
❖ Follow-through on large promises: Campaign will be heavily scrutinized if goals are not met.
3. Situational Analysis- Contd.
Opportunities:
❖ Humanizing the Homeless: Showing people’s suppost for the LGBTQ homeless can make the homless
seem more human which will bolster support.
❖ Supporting a Niche: This sets us up for a far more reasonable goal than to just end homelessness.
❖ Government Programs: Multiple initiatives to reduce and support the homeless in place already.
Threats:
❖ Failure: Failure of the campaign will leave many feeling cheated or robbed of their support.
❖ Misinterpretation: Some may not understand the link between LGBTQ and homelesness and attack the
campaign.
❖ Opposition From Right Politicians: Some politicians may take stances against the campaign since they
don’t support the audience of the campaign.
4. Research
❖ 26% of LGBTQ youth who come out to their parents are told to leave home
❖ 1.6 million youth are homeless each year and that up to 40 percent of them identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender (LGBT). Yet, LGBT youth make up just 7 percent of the general youth population
❖ 34% of runaway youth reported sexual abuse before leaving home and 43% reported physical abuse before
leaving home.
❖ 60% of homeless youth said they were victimized by threats, robbery, or physical or sexual assaults, occasionally
experienced in their “safe place.”
❖ LGBT youth represent between 30 and 43 percent of those served by drop-in centers, street outreach programs
and housing programs in the U.S
5. Research- Contd.
❖ LGBTQ+ suffer disproportionately from homelessness than their heterosexual counterparts
❖ On average the age teens became homeless was 15 and they remained homeless for 2 years.
❖ The numbers accounted for are only those who are visible to the community, there are many more
homeless youth who aren’t seen and therefore aren’t accounted for.
6. S.M.A.R.T. Objectives
S. - To raise awareness for LGBTQ youth in the Tampa Bay area by 25%
M. - To decrease the number of homeless LGBTQ youth in Tampa by 10%
A. - To raise $25,000 for the LGBTQ youth in our concert event (explained later)
R. - To increase recognition of homless LGBTQ youth in the Tampa residents by 15%
T. - To achieve decreases in homelessness and increases in awareness by the end of 2019.
7. Target Audiences
Primary: Who we’re trying
to help
❖ Ages 13- 24
❖ LGBTQ+ Youth
❖ Homeless
Secondary: Who we need help
from
❖ Older LGBTQ+
❖ Institute Educational
Leaders
❖ Possible Employers/
Mentors
8. Strategy
Central Theme:
❖ Unify the community to help bring awareness and more help to homeless lgbtq+ youth
➢ Through hosting a two day event catered to our audiences
Key Concepts:
❖ The more people that are aware, the more that can help with resources and connections
❖ Allowing the youth to have more opportunities decreases the risk of losing potential valuable
community members
❖ Increasing resources to available to the youth in both the amount of safe places in the community
and what the safe places offer to assist them.
❖ Give teens a second chance
9. Tactics
Week of
Social Postings and
Local Media
Appearances
Caters to primary and secondary
audience and mentions benefit
concert
2 Weeks
Flyers and Social Media
Posts
Caters to Secondary audience
and mentions two day events
1 Month
Event Billboard and
Flyers
Location: bus seats and public
transportation
3 Months
General Organization
Billboard
Location: Interstate and busy
roads
16. Evaluation
❖ Investment vs Return
❖ Amount of people that attended day 1 and day 2 events
❖ How many homeless youth attended each event
❖ Send out survey to attendees (increase awareness)
❖ Exposure of advertisement
❖ Increase of community involvement in recipient organizations
❖ Long Term Evaluation: With more exposure of the organizations how does the homeless youth feel
in their safe place(s)?
17. Executive Summary
Specific Audience Needs
Primary
❖ Helping raise more money → allows
more resources
❖ Made the problem their facing visible to
the public and community
❖ Want to give them a place where they
can trust the adults and the system
Secondary
❖ Events catered to those of all ages
❖ The more people reached, the higher
possibility they have of helping to
provide resources to safe places
18. Executive Summary- Contd.
What we learned…
❖ The importance of using multiple media outlets and advertising methods
❖ Often times different audiences find similar issues important
❖ The difference of good PR campaigns and bad ones are how much time is spent maximizing
available resources and reiterating the importance of the cause
❖ There is no exact structure on how to be successful in PR. Each client is different and each cause or
motivation for the campaign or press release is different too.