Call to Mind Live: Dispatches from Within, Youth Speak Out
The youth mental health crisis is on everyone’s mind; as families, care providers, and educators ask what they can do, who better to hear from than the students experiencing these struggles? This fall WFDD's Radio 101 partnered with Call to Mind and the Well Beings Tour to bring you Call to Mind Live: Dispatches from Within — Youth Speak Out. A live student-led program covering the mental health issues teens face today was help on Friday, December 10th. Student journalists shared their reporting on topics like eating disorders and substance use, and engaged with mental health experts on how these stories reflect the larger issues young people face today. If you missed the live virtual event, or just want to revisit the conversation, you can watch the recording of the event below.
About Radio101
Radio101 is a platform for young voices in our community to explore issues that they are passionate about. From personal reflections to topics of national relevance, Radio 101 provides high school students with the tools to turn their ideas into feature stories. Part of WFDD’s Hive, the Radio 101 program allows students to interact with professional journalists, experts from across the country (and the world), and collaborate with each other as they explore and learn about the world around them. Every semester, a new cohort of students joins the Radio 101 class through our after-school program, and since 2017, Radio 101 has been offered at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC, as a for-credit Honors-level class. The stories the students produce air on Mondays during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on WFDD.
About Call to Mind
Call to Mind is an initiative to foster new conversations about mental health from American Public Media, the largest station-based public radio organization in the U.S., which combines multi-regional station operations, national programming creation and distribution and innovative digital, social and mobile services in one organization. Using podcasts, news, events, partnerships and more, Call to Mind is bringing mental health conversations into the open, increasing public knowledge and engagement, to empower people to find the support they want and need. Learn more at calltomindnow.org or chime in on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter using @calltomindnow.
About WETA Well Beings
Well Beings is a multi-platform, multi-year campaign from public media to address the critical health needs in America through original broadcast and digital content, engagement campaigns and impactful local events. The campaign begins with the Youth Mental Health Project, engaging youth voices to create a national conversation, raise awareness, address stigma and discrimination, and encourage compassion. Well Beings was created by WETA Washington, D.C., the flagship public media station in the nation’s capital, and brings together partners from across the country, including youth with lived experience of mental health challenges, families, caregivers, educators, medical and mental health professionals, social service agencies, private foundations, filmmakers, corporations and media sponsors, to create awareness and resources for better health and wellbeing. The public can join the conversation on youth mental health by using #WellBeings, visiting WellBeings.org, or following @WellBeingsOrg on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.
Radio 101 stories - Dispatches from Within
Beginning in the fall of 2021, WFDD's Radio 101 class started working on a series of stories covering youth mental health. The students produced their own stories to go live on WFDD's airwaves and online, researching subjects, conducting interviews, and developing their piece to premiere on-air. The Dispatches from Within series consists of 7 powerful stories aired Mondays and Wednesdays during Morning Edition and All Things Considered, beginning November 29th. Find and listen to the stories below.
