What is the Community Radio Suicide Prevention Project?
The Community Radio Suicide Prevention Project (the project) utilises both satellite and local radio broadcasting to provide national delivery of suicide, mental health, and well-being messages through a network of over 300 radio stations nationwide. The project also distributes a monthly booklet and audio CD to promote suicide prevention, help-seeking behaviours, and well-being to a large national audience. Every three months throughout the project, specific content is packaged for youth, Indigenous and CALD audiences and distributed to all community radio stations broadcasting to these audience groups (including information in a range of community languages).
How can the Community Radio Suicide Prevention Project help PHNs?
The CBAA project team can assist with:
- Promotion of any large, regional suicide prevention and/or mental health projects, programs or initiatives developed or supported by PHNs through community radio stations and networks in the areas covered.
- Linking PHNs to their local community radio station/s to support ongoing, local opportunities or promotion of programs, interviews etc.
What is the geographical footprint of the Community Radio Suicide Prevention Project?
The Community Radio Suicide Prevention Project is national, with all our member stations listed at: www.cbaa.org.au/about/our-members
Options exist for broadcasting of content to all of these stations through the Community Radio Suicide Prevention Project, along with targeting of content to specific regions and/or locations.
Additional information
A key feature of the project is promotion of help-seeking and sharing positive lived experience stories as a way of encouraging others to seek help (or to support those around them), including people from diverse cultural backgrounds. The project team welcomes ideas for content which features local community members with lived experience who would like to share their stories, or which features examples of local community initiatives which are making a difference in the area of suicide prevention and mental health
Contact Details
Ian Watson Project Manager Email: iwatson@cbaa.org.au Phone: 0448 801 381
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