Sound Partners - Partnership Profiles

Community Voices for Meth Awareness

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:09:49 -0700

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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.

Mujeres Al Borde de la Buena Salud (Women On the Verge of Good Health)

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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

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 07:28:13 -0700

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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.

Ya'xotch'xolik People Telling Stories: Addressing Native Community Health Issues through the Healing Power of Stories

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Storytelling used to be the way to learn tribal history and teach children how to live. The Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District and KIDE-FM invited families to turn off the TV and come listen to stories again. Ya'xotch'xolik: People Telling Stories: Addressing Native Community Health Issues through the Healing Power of Stories produced radio programming including interviews to educate community members and youth-produced radio shows. Community events included a story-telling festival and story broadcasts from school events.

Senior Falls Prevention Project

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Falling is a leading cause of accidental death, injury and anxiety among older adults. WCBU-FM and the Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation pooled expertise and outreach to raise public awareness of this issue through a series of radio features and PSAs. The Senior Falls Prevention Project included a direct service component to provide training on strength building and prevention of falls to seniors across central Illinois.

Being a Healthy Hawaiian

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Native Hawaiians have unique health care and cultural concerns. Hui Malama Ola Na `Oiwi, in partnership with Hawai'i Public Radio and KWXX-FM, created Being a Healthy Hawaiian. The project used a new model of community gatherings with "talk story" sessions to promote dialogue about health concerns. HPR produced a 12-part series while commercial KWXX-FM, which covers rural and remote areas of the state, assisted with outreach through PSAs.

Listen Up! Challenges for Healthy Living

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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

NEAR Health Careers

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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

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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

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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.