Guia de Etiqueta na Saúde Mental
A digital platform that promotes mental health awareness across languages and cultures.
Project Challenges
One of the main challenges was ensuring inclusivity and accessibility across multiple languages, with a special focus on Ukrainian communities. Additionally, the platform had to balance informative content with a simple, user-friendly experience, avoiding overwhelming navigation. Time constraints and the need for coordination between COMON, the Portuguese Red Cross, and Buzzvel also required a structured and agile development process.
Solutions
To overcome these challenges, Buzzvel adopted a collaborative workshop methodology with COMON to align on structure, wireframes, and content management needs. We developed the website in WordPress with a focus on modular, reusable components, making content updates efficient and scalable. Multilingual management was handled through a robust translation system, ensuring consistency across all three languages. Accessibility best practices were applied to typography, contrast, and navigation flow.
Additionally, we implemented clear content hierarchies and streamlined page structures, ensuring visitors could easily navigate through mental health resources. Close collaboration with COMON and the Red Cross teams ensured that the digital product was aligned with both communication strategy and humanitarian goals.
Results
The project delivered a modern, multilingual digital platform that amplifies the message of mental health etiquette across different communities. The site significantly improved accessibility to resources, particularly for Ukrainian speakers, supporting the humanitarian mission of the Portuguese Red Cross.
With a clean, mobile-first interface and optimized SEO architecture, the platform now reaches wider audiences and drives engagement through clear calls to action. Content managers benefit from a straightforward CMS, reducing publication time and allowing for continuous updates.
The “Guia de Etiqueta na Saúde Mental” stands as a successful collaboration between COMON, the Portuguese Red Cross, and Buzzvel — a platform that not only informs but also empowers individuals to act with empathy and awareness in mental health contexts.
Recognition and Achievements
Media Mentions
"An innovative project that, for the first time, links social norms with their impact on well-being and mental health."
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"The Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa (CVP) launched the Guia de Etiqueta na Saúde Mental, associating, for the first time, the norms dictated by social contexts versus their impact on well-being and mental health."
Read more"This guide aims to combine, for the first time, the two topics—etiquette and mental health—into one, in order to promote the application of psychological first aid. The concept, still unknown to many, promotes simple strategies to apply in times of emotional crisis."
Read more"Cruz Vermelha launches guide for dealing with situations of distress: Psychological first aid is an act of citizenship. "
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"This Guia de Etiqueta na Saúde Mental comes in the context of the European EU4Health initiative and is a beautiful way to teach us good manners. Good manners to take better care of ourselves and each other. "
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