{"id":459717,"date":"2026-02-05T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:48:07","slug":"cambridgeshires-mental-health-podcast-hopes-to-beat-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459717\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridgeshire&#8217;s mental health podcast hopes to beat stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first podcast features Gary Clarke, a former prison officer and mental health advocate, and Allan Hughes, CPSL Mind&#8217;s co-production lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both mental health champions support fathers through CPSL Mind&#8217;s perinatal services, including the Andy&#8217;s Man Club in Peterborough. Clarke now supports dads across Cambridgeshire in his Perinatal Project Dads Worker role at CPSL Mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Life is tough, and men often feel pressure to provide, but we&#8217;re breaking that taboo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mental health is about being the best you can be, not the best others expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hughes said: &#8220;These discussions are raw, real, and timely. We&#8217;re proud to collaborate with CPSL Mind to make mental health support approachable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Side by Side podcast will be available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cpslmind5837\" class=\"ssrcss-edv9ii-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CPSL Mind&#8217;s YouTube channel, external<\/a>, with future episodes covering youth mental health and other local initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CPSL Mind team will also be at Cambridge United Football Club on 14 February, supported by the Cambridge United Foundation, highlighting their ongoing commitment to community mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first podcast features Gary Clarke, a former prison officer and mental health advocate, and Allan Hughes, CPSL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-459717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}