The goal of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism is to increase effective and accurate reporting on mental health issues.

Nine U.S.-based fellows and one non-U.S.-based fellow will be selected in July based on their proposed mental health projects. The non-U.S. fellow must report on the intersection of mental health and climate change. Projects can be proposed in multiple formats – digital, audio, video, print – and applicants are encouraged to think creatively within the topic area.

Fellowship projects have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and have earned Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Signal Awards, and awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists, Public Radio News Directors Inc., the American Psychiatric Association, Mental Health America, and the National Alliance for Mental Illness.