Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project - October 2016

Welcome to the October 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:

• Look at the results of a national survey from R U OK?
• Catch up with Jake Gablonski, a young Aboriginal man from Katherine who is highly passionate about the role we can all play in supporting those around us.
• Look at the range of resources and support the Mindframe National Media Initiative provides to encourage responsible, accurate and sensitive representation of mental illness and suicide in the Australian mass media.
• Speak to Suicide Prevention Australia about a new national report which shows just how far-reaching suicide is as a serious public health issue in Australia.

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.