Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project - October 2020

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 learn about the new guidelines Mindframe have developed which empower safe and responsible reporting on the issues of mental illness in the context of violence and crime, and which seek to minimise stigma and promote help-seeking behaviour.

We hear about the award-wining Better Off With You campaign, which features real stories told by local people who share their experiences of suicidal thoughts and feeling like a burden on the people in their life, and how they came to see things differently.

We learn about the work being done by the Grapevine Group, a grassroots organisation dedicated to raising awareness for suicide prevention in the Mackay region.

We catch up with the team at ReachOut to hear about some practical things young people can do to take a proactive approach to study stress.

And we learn about the LivingWorks Start program, a 90-minute online program that anyone can take to be trained to recognise the signs of suicide and take life-saving action by connecting those at risk to hope and safety.

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 - October 2020.pdf