The Carter Center does good work to help promote de-stigmatizing mental health information and journalism, so I thought this announcement was worth reproducing here to help them publicize this year’s fellowship awards.
After receiving a record number of applicants, the Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for …
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The Carter Center does good work to help promote de-stigmatizing mental health information and journalism
They declare a stigma, the sentence above is declarative.
Women here, educated women like Ms Carter, refuted the stigma of rape. Curious she would now declare another.
Harold A. Maio, retired Mental Health Editor
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the name mental health journalism claims my attention because not many journalists, including myself in Liberia have had any training in this area of our noble profession. Coming out of a long period of armed conflict,mental health illness, especially among young people is of common place in our streets and communities, but are rarely noticed by the local media perhaps because of the lack of training in the area. Please consider me the first Liberian applicant for your 2009/2010 fellowships for mental health journalism. I work for the catholic-owned Radio Veritas in Monrovia as a news editor and currently acting news coordinator.
I agree with you that issues of mental health illnesses receive less coverage. so the questions I often ask myself as a journalist about people suffering from mental illnesses are; how did it happen to them, what is responsible, can all mental health patients be cured, and how can the media help in providing education and awareness for the public to generate sympathy and care for such people?
I am a current Human Services student. I plan on becoming a youth advocate and later a high school counselor with my degree. I am 26 years old, and have been a writer most of my life. I believe the work that I do will help immensely.
If you want a community to thrive, you must make sure the next generation is well taken care of. This is something about the mental health profession that has been proven over and over. In this day and age of so much technology increasing at such high rates, it is very easy to get caught up in the external and not listen to your inner voice.