APM has specials and resources available to help your station commemorate Mental Health Awareness Month throughout May. You can find more information at our website, or contact your Station Relations Representative.
Mental Health in the Media Style Guide by Call to Mind
Call to Mind is American Public Media’s initiative to foster new conversations about mental health. As an initiative of a public media organization, Call to Mind knows intimately that language matters in media coverage as well. As such, the Call to Mind team developed a comprehensive Media Style Guide to address appropriate ways to refer to different conditions and commonly used terms related to mental wellbeing. This guide is intended as a source for journalists and media entities, but is helpful for anyone who wants to understand the implications of their language and how they could do better when it comes to talking about mental health.
Spotlight on Rethinking Mental Health Care
Program 1: April 24, 2021 – May 31, 2021
Program 2: April 25, 2021 – May 31, 2021
Two, one-hour long programs. Each hour can be aired separately or back-to-back
Rethinking Mental Health Care will present an honest critique of the nation’s mental health care shortcomings, while highlighting tangible solutions and models for improving access and quality of care. Hosted by Kimberly Adams of Marketplace, this two-part format will allow guests to deep dive into failures, challenges and opportunities, while also allowing people to question mental health experts to ground the issues in matters most pressing to the public.
Program 1: Our Mental Health Crisis, By Design
America’s mental health system is designed to deliver too little care, too late. Current policy and care systems devote the most resources to treating people in crisis, but provider and bed shortages remain common. How are people still finding ways to connect with help?
Program 2: Reinventing the Future of Mental Health Care
Preventative mental health care is effective and can prevent early symptoms from becoming chronic illnesses. What will it take to reform the nation’s care systems and policies so that people get the wholistic care they need to prevent a crisis?
Alone Together
April 29, 2021 – May 31, 2021
One hour
Featuring music performed by the 8 male voices of Cantus and hosted by Julie Amacher, Alone Together, is a special program highlighting mental health topics including depression and anxiety. The program is a collaboration with Call To Mind.
Playlist:
- When the Earth Stands Still – Don Macdonald
- Deep Blue – Arcade Fire
- Manifesto – David Lang
- Twitter Song – Ingrid Michaelson
- Calme De Nuits (Stillness of the Night) – Camille Saint-Saëns
- River – Joni Mitchell
- You III. You, know … who, are – Libby Larsen
- A Most Peculiar Man – Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
- Camina Siempre Adelante – Alberto Cortez
- Disappear/You Will Be Found – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
- We Two – Steven Stametz
- Gesang der Mönche/Gravedigger – Beethoven/Dave Matthews
- She’s Leaving Home – John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Questions? Please contact your Stations Relations Representative.