Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project - May 2021

What's in this month's segments?

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.

This month we speak with the team at Mindframe about the work they’re doing to encourage responsible, accurate and sensitive representation of suicide, mental ill-health, and alcohol and other drugs in the Australian media.

We catch up with SANE Australia CEO Rachel Green to find out why addressing negative media portrayals of mental illness is so important, and how stigma impacts on people affected by complex mental health issues, their families, and other carers.

We profile Family Man, which Movember has created with dads in mind to provide them with simple, yet effective, tools for mastering the art of parenting.

We look at the work being done by the Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia to lead the development of the Zero Suicide Healthcare and Crisis Now frameworks in our region, focusing on reducing suicides and improving care for those who choose to seek help.

And we catch up with the host of the second series of the podcast A World Where LivingWorks, which focuses on different communities and cultures around the world to try to better understand the concept of suicide and its prevention in their context.

How to access the segments

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:

• Click the track
• Click 'View Track' when it appears next to the track name. A new window will open with a Soundcloud page. 
• 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 to each one to quickly access multiple tracks.

Track information is available to download below.

Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project - May 2021.pdf