Some tips to make the most your fellowship year:

• Plan ahead. What topic are you interested in? What are your challenges? What do you need to know in order to complete your project? 
• Be respectful of your mentor’s time. Mentorship is voluntary, and mentors are busy journalists and mental health experts. If you need to reschedule or cancel, please give them advanced notice.
• End your session with a game plan. Identify next steps, set a deadline for execution or follow-up. 

Our mentorship program is for journalists or people working directly in journalism. If you have questions about the mental health journalism fellowships, please email carterfellows@cartercenter.org.

Yes, you can. It all depends on coaches’ availability and willingness, their areas of expertise and your needs. 

If you can’t make your mentorship session, please be respectful of your coach’s time and give them a heads-up as far in advance as possible. All mentors are volunteers and block off valuable time to mentor you. Life happens. But courtesy is important.

All of the mentors are alumni of The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism—the highly-competitive, non-residential fellowship for journalists from the United States, Ireland, Latin America, and the United Arab Emirates to report on a mental health topic of their choice. Mentors are journalists who have been trained in mental health reporting and have extensive experience in mental health reporting. The mentors are volunteers and serve a three-year term.