We are proud to announce that 2023 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting has been awarded to the creators of “Therapy Ghostbusters,” an NPR Invisibilia podcast about one therapist’s effort to connect with refugee survivors of the Cambodian genocide. The Award is presented annually in partnership with the National Press Foundation. Stephanie Foo, Neena Pathak, Lee Hale, Ariana Lee, Phoebe Wang, Yowei Shaw and Nic Read More »

Mental Health in the Spotlight as Three Employers Receive New Award for Exemplary Efforts to Support Workforce Wellbeing   Washington, D.C., October 04, 2022 – The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) and The Luv u Project announced today the inaugural winners of the Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health in the Read More »

We are proud to announce the inaugural Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health in the Workplace (Mattingly Award). This important new initiative will actively recognize organizations wishing to embrace and enhance mental health. Applications will open in January 2022. The idea for the new award was developed at a 2016 symposium held at the Read More »

Dan Boyce of Colorado Public Radio Wins the Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting with a powerful Documentary on His Own Mental Breakdown and Recovery. Colorado Public Radio reporter Dan Boyce has won this year’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting for an audio documentary about his own mental breakdown and Read More »

Never in our lifetimes have we collectively been so physically disconnected, yet so focused on a common objective—moving beyond Covid-19 and its far-reaching effects. I will even venture to suggest that many have come to better understand the correlation between and importance of, both physical and mental health in our lives.  In these unprecedented times, the Read More »

The Colorado Independent is the winner of the National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting for a story on how the killing of a mentally ill man by a police officer changed a community. “Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a small town’s silence,” was written by Niki Read More »

We are proud to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting.   To learn more, or to submit your application click here.   Entries must be for journalism broadcast or published in calendar year 2018. The deadline for entries is Friday, March 15, 2019.

We are delighted to share the full manuscript of our work regarding workplace mental health, which was published this spring in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM). This key initiative of The Luv u Project is an alliance with The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH). As the oldest school of public health in the Read More »

The Luv u Project is grateful to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for its annual award in honor of Carolyn and Richard Mattingly. We are particularly pleased that this recognition highlights the vital importance of mental health within the cystic fibrosis community. Rich’s career with the CF Foundation spanned nearly four decades, with Carolyn at his Read More »

John Schmid of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is the 2018 winner of the Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting. The Luv u Project, in partnership with the National Press Foundation, established this award in 2015 to honor excellence in mental health reporting. The award recognizes exemplary journalism that illuminates and advances the understanding of mental Read More »