In 2022, The Carter Center officially launched the Mental Health Parity Newsroom Collaborative, a new project with newsrooms around the country focused on expanding coverage of mental health care access, parity, and inequities in the United States. The collaborative builds on the successes of our decades-long journalism fellowship program.
In our pilot year, more than 40 reporters and editors from 15 outlets participated, along with our national partner, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) in Washington, D.C. Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy provided research support. With additional funding, we continued and strengthened our news collaborative in 2023, partnering with 21 newsrooms across eight states, along with CPI and the Shorenstein Center. We will recruit and work with a new cohort of partners each year.
To date, the program has resulted in more than 70 stories that have been recognized with state and national awards. We were also recognized by the Center for Cooperative Media as one of the top news collaborations of 2022 in our pilot year.
Participating newsrooms receive training and resources to produce stories as part of the project, connected through a tagline and amplified on a variety of distribution channels.
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