Welcome to the 2024 Podcast Challenge 

We have been working hard behind the scenes with six local schools to cover six pressing topics that we see impacting young people at headspace Echuca.

This youth led project allowed young people to inform, reflect and support each other on topics that they themselves, their friends, their family and peers may be dealing with in some way. 

Having a youth led project like this has supported the roll out of mental health literacy within the school environment and now that the podcasts have been released to the public, it has allowed for everyone and anyone to access the amazing conversations of young people around day to day issues.

As one person states in the podcasts "we need real and raw". We hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as we have enjoyed making them. 

Thank you for watching and listening to some of if not all of the podcasts you will have found on this page. 

An amazing amount of work from schools, students, community members and Ralph from Making Media. 

Through feedback from the project we learned the following;

• 85% of participants have experienced concerns with one or more of these mental wellbeing topics
• 88% of participants rated an increased understanding of their podcast topic
• 83% of participants rated an increased understanding of the services and supports available for their podcast topic

By Watching these podcasts you can now understand the importance of youth led projects and the power of young people to make change, especially regarding the sensitive topics they have shared.