Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project - August 2016

Welcome to the August 2016 content of the CBAA's national suicide prevention and mental health awareness project, developed with the support of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

Each month, our project team develops a series of 20 short radio segments designed to promote help-seeking behaviour and positive lifestyle choices, using interviews with service providers, as well as profiles of people who have successfully dealt with tough times in their lives.

What's in this month's segments?

This month we:

• hear about a nationwide awareness campaign SANE Australia has launched in a bid to improve the social connection and mental health outcomes for people affected by complex mental illness.
• hear about the work of Leilani Darwin, an inspirational woman who recently won the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award at the National Suicide Prevention Conference.
• learn about some important new resources that have been developed to support discussion about suicide in Aboriginal communities.

How to access the segments

Starting in 2016, the CBAA host these radio segments on Soundcloud. 

You can listen to each segment in the playlist below:

To download the segments for use at your station, simply:

1. Click the track
2. Click 'View Track' when it appears next to the track name. A new window will open with a Soundcloud page. 
3. Click the download icon directly under the track (a down arrow and line).

Alternatively, click here to view the whole playlist on Soundcloud, and you can click the download icon next each one to quickly access multiple tracks.

Track information is available to download below.