Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project - July 2016

Welcome to the June 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:

• catch up with Steven Oliver, an Aboriginal poet, comedian and performer who is a strong supporter of the work of R U OK? and encourages others to reach out to those they care about and start meaningful conversations.

• hear from Suicide Prevention Australia’s head of communications Kim Borrowdale about some of the things she learnt during a recent trip to the UK after being awarded the first ever International Learning and Development Grant from The Ian Potter Foundation.

• learn about The Big Stigma, a new headspace national awareness campaign aimed at informing Australians that the more we talk openly about mental health issues, the easier it becomes for young people to seek help for them.

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.