Partnership Profiles
Community Voices for Meth Awareness
Through television and radio programs, public discussions, a website, and PSA's, KEET-TV, Humboldt County Mental Health, Zoe Barnum High, the RAVEN Project, Crossroads/The North Coast Substance Abuse Council, and commercial KHUM-FM/KSLG-FM launched a public awareness campaign about the devastating effects of methamphetamine. Community Voices for Meth Awareness includes commercial radio programming, a professional TV documentary and a student-produced TV documentary for use during school assemblies. Students, producers and local agencies worked together to create outreach materials for use in schools and outreach to the general community are offered online and at documentary screening events. KHUM's radio documentary, "Picking Up: Meth on the North Coast" swept the 2007 Small Market Radio Documentary Awards in both the Western regional and the national Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association. Read all about it.
Mujeres Al Borde de la Buena Salud (Women On the Verge of Good Health)
The number of California Latinas who are dying due to preventable diseases is too high. Radio Bilingüe, a network of five community-based Spanish-language stations, and the California Health Collaborative will combine their media and outreach expertise to help connect Latinas and Indigenous Mixtec Women in California's San Joaquín Valley to local preventative services through Mujeres Al Borde de la Buena Salud (Women On the Verge of Good Health).
Circle of Care
In coping with chronic and terminal illness, good communication among a patient, family and health care team creates a patient-centered approach to healing. WHYY-TV and the Caring Community Coalition will present television stories for Circle of Care that use the arts to enhance communication and personalize the experience of health care. The Coalition will distribute programming to non-broadcast venues, and create accessible educational modules, a toolkit and resources directories on-line.
Listen Up! Challenges for Healthy Living
KGNU, along with the People's Clinic and Spanish-language radio KGRE-AM, aimed to educate and push for change that reduces chronic health problems in low-income families, especially within the Hispanic community. La Vida! Challenges for Healthy Living was a year-long radio series of features and documentaries, real-life radio sagas and call-in programs. Key programs in the series were produced in both English and Spanish and made available for outreach and training on CDs, cassettes, videos, on-line and in print. Outreach demos and training sessions were held in area schools, town halls, support groups and churches.
NEAR Health Careers
KASU-FM joined forces with the Arkansas Southern Rural Access Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in NEAR Health Careers. The project aimed to inform high school students about hometown rural health careers that will make life better for everyone. The project profiled students from Northeastern Arkansas enrolled in health care programs in a series of radio features. ASRAP developed a website targeting high school teachers that contains the radio programs as well as information on health care related educational programs.
First 5 for Kids! Immunizations
There is no other medical strategy that reduces disease and improves health more than a complete series of childhood immunizations, which is why KPBS-TV/FM, the Council of Community Clinics, the First 5 Commission of San Diego County and KGTV 10News partnered to educate San Diegans on the importance of infant immunizations. First 5 for Kids! Infant Immunization includes TV and radio news and PSAs, Web content and community outreach events at clinics serving Spanish, Vietnamese and Somali speakers.
Listening4yourHealth—a Wellness Call to Action
WPFW Pacifica Radio used the airwaves to encourage and support listeners to exercise more, improve eating habits, and use techniques to manage stress.
Listening4yourHealth—a Wellness Call to Action was a partnership of WPFW, the DC Department of Health's Maternal and Family Health Administration, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation's Sports, Fitness and Health Office, the Metro DC Community Health Consortium, the Gaston-Porter Health Improvement Center, and area health and fitness experts.
House Calls
KUYI-FM, Hopi-owned community radio, and the Institute for Health Professions Education have teamed up to expand the scope of the successful program, House Calls. It's a weekly, live call-in show providing answers for Native elders living in remote areas on the Hopi and Navajo reservations. The program engages Elders as cultural experts as well as recipients of health information, offering opportunities to learn, to teach and to enhance their later years. The project includes 4 live remote broadcasts and PSAs.
Eliminating Health Care Disparities in Rural Georgia
Because access to quality health care is a growing problem for minorities and the poor in rural Georgia, Morehouse School of Medicine partnered with Georgia Public Broadcasting. Eliminating Health Care Disparities in Rural Georgia examined the issues through radio programming and shared findings in a live town hall meeting broadcast.
Health Access
Many North Dakotans have poor access to health care. That's why North Dakota Public Radio and the Family HealthCare Center are promoting early access to care, prevention, and public (legislative) solutions. Health Access includes talk shows, news stories, features, short announcements and segments within ongoing programs. Programs feature both policy discussion and grassroots stories.
