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At RaffertyWeiss Media, we have written, produced and directed a variety of public service announcements, outreach, educational, and training video productions for the federal government over the past 18 years.

Our video production experience and work with the federal government agencies has been incredibly diverse.  We have produced numerous national broadcast public service announcements (PSA) campaigns for the Department of Labor, Department of Health & Human Services, Peace Corps and EEOC.  We have also produced many non-broadcast outreach, informational and training videos for several Department of Health & Human Services agencies that include NIH, NIDA and SAMSHA.

For the Department of Labor (DOL), RaffertyWeiss Media crafted a four-minute video along with a one-minute PSA as part of the DOL’s efforts to attract young people to a career in the construction industry.  We captured both of these pieces on HD video and taped at various construction locations in the Washington DC and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania areas.  We used actors to portray young people working in the construction industry and talk abut the need for workers, and the benefits of having a career in the construction trades.

The four-minute video was screened across the country at various organizations and schools.  The public service announcement was screened on a Jumbotron during halftime of a Pittsburgh Steelers game.  This resulted in over 50,000 hits to the DOL’s website in the Pittsburgh area alone.

Another federal government broadcast media outreach public service campaign we produced was for DOL’s Office of Disability Employment directed towards small and medium-sized business owners.  This PSA was produced to make business owners aware that hiring people with disabilities is good for the bottom line.  The PSA dispelled the myth to business owners that the 50 million people with disabilities are loyal and productive employees if given the opportunity.  RaffertyWeiss was able to create and produce two PSAs in both English and Spanish.  We used real people with physical and intellectual disabilities to carry our message in this PSA.

For the Department of Heath & Human Service’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid we produced two national TV commercials alerting senior citizens about the dangers of Medicare fraud.   One of these commercial featured hired professional actors and the other highlighted real federal government employees and senior volunteers.

For the National Institute of Health we produced and directed a broadcast public service announcement along with a three minute video for the National Children’s Center informing young mothers about a national long-term study that is currently taking place and asking for their participation.  The broadcast TV PSA is currently running nationally and the video has been distributed through DVDs and the web.

Our full-service video production services for the federal government agencies does not only include broadcast media outreach but many internal training and informational videos as well.   For the Department of Health and Human Service’s SAMSHA we produced and edited over 300 video interviews with health care professionals explaining an innovative drug-screening program in hospitals and healthcare centers across the country.  RaffertyWeiss producers traveled to eight cities (including Anchorage, Alaska) over a two week period and interviewed social workers, doctors, and healthcare experts as they explained their own challenges and outcomes of their drug screening programs and how it continues to be successful.  These videos are currently be shown on an internal Learning Video Gallery website hosted by SAMSHA for other health care professionals to gain some knowledge on how this program might work in their particular city.

RaffertyWeiss Media has the expertise, experience and creativity when it comes to producing federal government video production from broadcast media outreach public service campaigns to compelling public informational and training videos.