Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project - April 2016

Welcome to the April 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 the many opportunities to get involved in suicide prevention, and how you can think about your personal readiness to be involved.
• Learn about the results of the first national research project into the way mental illness is portrayed visually in Australia.
• Look at the things we can do if we’re concerned about the way someone close to us is behaving, and are worried that something is not quite right.
• Hear why it’s important to have the support of our workmates and employers when we’re going through difficult times.

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.