Applications open for The Mindset Awards on Mental Health

The Mindset Award for Reporting on the Mental Health of Young People is sponsored by the Canadian Mental Health Association.

The Mindset Award for Reporting on Workplace Mental Health is sponsored by Workplace Strategies for Mental Health, courtesy of Canada Life.

Award Categories

• The Mindset Award for Reporting on Workplace Mental Health
  • The Mindset Award for Workplace Mental Health Reporting celebrates significant works of public interest journalism, in keeping with the principles of the Mindset guide, which are incisive or investigative and materially advance public awareness or understanding of significant issues involving workplace mental health. This includes mental health issues arising from, or in the context of, work wherever it is performed. For the purposes of this award, work is defined as something for which one would normally be paid, whether or not payment is received.
• The Mindset Award for Reporting on the Mental Health of Young People
  • The Mindset Award for Reporting on Young People’s Mental Health celebrates significant works of public interest journalism, in keeping with the principles of the Mindset guide, which are incisive or investigative and materially advance public awareness or understanding of significant issues involving young people’s mental health. The term “young people” is intended to include children, youth and young adults such as university students.

Funding Information

• Award for both categories:
  • The award consists of a prize of $1,000 CDN and a framed certificate. It will be presented at a lunchtime event during the annual CAJ national conference in Toronto on May 31, 2024. The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, which administers the award independently of the CAJ, may provide travel assistance for a winner or representative to attend the presentation.

Who can apply?

• The Mindset Award for Reporting on Workplace Mental Health
  • The competition is open to work by any journalist or journalists, whether general-assignment or specialist, staff or freelance, whose original reporting on mental health in the workplace is published in English in Canadian print, broadcast or on-line news or current affairs media, national or local, except that self-published work is not eligible.
• The Mindset Award for Reporting on the Mental Health of Young People
  • The competition is open to work by any journalist or journalists, whether general-assignment or specialist, staff or freelance, whose original reporting on mental health issues affecting young people is published in English in Canadian print, broadcast or on-line news or current affairs media, national or local, except that self-published work is not eligible.

Conditions

• To qualify, entries must have been published for the first time between January 1 2023 and December 31 2023. Entries may consist of single articles or broadcast reports or series. A series should normally be identified as such at the time of publication, but the jury may include sustained reporting over a period of time on a tightly defined topic (not a broad beat) that was not given a formal title.
• Applications may be made by individuals substantially responsible for the work or on their behalf by the media organization by which the entry was published.

For more information, visit Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.