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Going Digital: Strengthening Mental Health Education and Clinical Trainings in Liberia
After working with the Ministry of Health and key partners for over a decade, the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program has seen tremendous increases in Liberia’s behavioral health system’s capacity to attend to the immense mental health needs of the population. Important sustained gains include workforce development, drafting and passage…
Carter Center launches multistate newsroom collaborative to enhance mental health care coverage
Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism partners with The Center for Public Integrity to advance coverage of access to mental health care ATLANTA — In the face of the growing national mental health crisis, The Carter Center announces the launch of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a new multistate…
The Carter Center opens applications for 2022-23 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
ATLANTA (Feb. 2, 2022) — The Carter Center is pleased to announce that applications for journalists who are U.S. citizens and residents are now being accepted for the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. Selected fellows will join a top-notch cohort of more than 230 fellows awarded over the…
2022: The year of reframing mental health
By Rennie Sloan Assistant Director of Communications, The Carter Center Years ago, my friend was a single mom and also working full-time outside the home. Sometimes she needed a mental health day to recharge. But back then, if you wanted time off other than vacation, calling out from work was…
2021-2022 Rosalynn Carter Fellows for Mental Health Journalism announced in Latin America
Journalists Flavia Fontes Mantovani, of Folha de SĂŁo Paulo daily newspaper in Brazil, and Katherine Stanley Obando, from solutions journalism outlet El Colectivo 506 in Costa Rica, will receive USD$5,000 to investigate mental health in their regions. The Carter Center in Atlanta and Universidad de La Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia,…
Michelle Rivera joins Rosalynn Carter Fellowships as senior program associate
By Sophia Rhoades and Matt Semon Carter Center Mental Health Program Interns The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the way the world functions and has impacted the lives of everyone across the globe, exposing gaps in governmental and economic systems. Â For Michelle Rivera, the strain was particularly evident in the…
Carter Center and Reveal award Brett Sholtis the Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grant for Mental Health Investigative Journalism
WITF health reporter Sholtis selected as one of nine Rosalynn Carter Fellows for Mental Health Journalism ATLANTA — Brett Sholtis, health reporter at NPR affiliate WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has been selected as a 2021-2022 Fellow under the Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grant for Mental Health Investigative Journalism — a partnership between…
Carter Center Awards 9 U.S. journalists Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
The Carter Center adds fellowship and will train and support fellows as they report on a mental health topic of their choice  ATLANTA — The Carter Center is pleased to announce nine recipients of the 2021-2022 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism in the United States. The center is…
Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism appoints new US Advisory Board members
The Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism (RCJF) is pleased to announce the appointment of four new U.S. Advisory Board members. They bring a wealth of experience and expertise from various mediums, academia and the international journalism arena. The new members are Dr. Kortni Alston, happiness scholar…
Former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter honored by World Health Organization for 50 years of mental health advocacy
Carter Center Board of Trustees Chair Jason Carter Accepts Award of Global Health Given to Mrs. Carter During Opening 74th World Health Assembly ATLANTA (May 24, 2021) — Former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter was recognized today by the World Health Organization (WHO) for 50 years of leadership to help improve…
Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism open 2021-2022 applications for Latin American journalists
The Carter Center in Atlanta and Universidad de La Sabana, in association with FundaciĂłn Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez, has opened applications for the 2021-2022 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism in Latin America. The partnership provides two fellowships for Latin American journalists to investigate and report on the state of…
Join #CarterFellowsChat to learn more about our mental health journalism fellowships
Carter Fellows and a longtime adviser will take live questions about the fellowships, applications and more. ATLANTA — The Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism will host a #CarterFellowsChat on Twitter on March 10, 2021 at 7 p.m. ET. The chat will feature fellows Eileen Truax, a…
A 3-digit U.S. emergency mental health line is coming. But it’s not that simple.
Abigail Jones is an award-winning journalist specializing in mental health, trauma, women and family, and a 2020-2021 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism. This is a lightly edited version of the informal essay Abigail submitted for her fellowship application, republished with her permission. The deadline for 2021-2022’s fellowship applications is…
A community approach to preventing police violence against Liberians in mental health crisesÂ
By Tsion Horra Program Assistant, The Carter Center Mental Health Program The response to anti-Black violence in the United States and mass deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic globally have demonstrated how profoundly social and public emergencies affect the mental health of various populations.  And trauma in the aftermath of violent interactions with police are carried by those who survive, witness and fear these acts of brutality.  In 2020, we saw protests…
Covid-19 is affecting everyone, but all insurance companies aren’t covering mental health services. Here’s what you can do.
By Helen Robinson Associate Director of Public Policy, The Carter Center As more and more consumer complaints pour into Kennedy Forum’s Parity Registry, experts are seeing firsthand how mental health insurance coverage — of lack thereof — is a matter of life or death as coverage denials force people across…
Rosalynn Carter Fellowship Alum Lisa Armstrong named Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow
By Elisa Xiu Carter Center Communications Intern When the University of Michigan announced the Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellows for 2020-2021, Lisa Armstrong, associate professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a 2015 recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, was among its distinguished ranks. The…
The Carter Center Awards Eight U.S. journalists Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
The Carter Center will train fellows on effective mental health reporting and support them as they report on a mental health topic of their choice.  ATLANTA — The Carter Center, a global leader in mental health, is pleased to announce the eight U.S. recipients of the 2020-2021 Rosalynn…
The Carter Center partners with Mental Health Reporters’ Network to mentor Liberian journalists
The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism and the Mental Health Reporters Network in Liberia announce the inaugural class of mentees in mental health journalism   ATLANTA — The Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism and the Mental Health Reporters’ Network (MHRN) in Liberia have partnered…
Carter Fellow Fiza Pirani’s Foreign Bodies wins inaugural Substack Independent Writers Grant
Fiza Pirani, a freelance writer and 2018-2019 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism, was awarded an Independent Writers Grant from email newsletter publisher Substack for her Foreign Bodies newsletter. Pirani’s newsletter, which centers on immigrant and refugee experiences with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness and encourage personal storytelling,…
Carter Fellows’ work featured in Open Notebook’s “The Craft of Science Writing”
By Iain Smith Carter Center Intern ATLANTA — Three Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellows have had their work featured in The Open Notebook’s latest book, “The Craft of Science Writing.” In the book, The Open Notebook pooled a collection of articles to educate scientists and science journalists on science…