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Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32447
Subject(s) - mental health , stigma (botany) , journalism , storytelling , public relations , political science , public health , psychology , sociology , media studies , medicine , psychiatry , nursing , narrative , art , literature
The Carter Center, a global leader in mental health, announced July 15 the eight U.S. recipients of the 2020–21 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. The group includes a nonprofit news leader, local reporters, freelance journalists and the inaugural Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism. Beginning in September, fellows will pursue innovative mental health journalism projects during the yearlong, nonresidential fellowship, a news release stated. The projects tackle some of society's biggest behavioral health challenges and seek to strengthen reporting, drive change in their communities and help reduce stigma through storytelling. The fellowships challenge recipients to delve deeper into learning about a mental health issue to ensure the public gets reliable information about mental illnesses. “The Carter Center has worked for more than two decades to develop a cohort of journalists who can have a significant impact on the public's understanding of mental illnesses,” said former First Lady and Carter Center co‐founder Rosalynn Carter. “These journalists are making important contributions to lifting some of the stigma associated with mental health issues.”