We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting is Rosalind Adams of Buzzfeed News. The winning piece, “Intake“, is an investigative report of private psychiatric hospitals. The judges said: “Adams’ dogged reporting showed that a major for-profit company, which runs 200 psychiatric hospitals, was keeping patients Read More »
On October 20-21, 2016, the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies (IHPS) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Hopkins), with support from The Luv u Project, hosted the “Mental Health in the Workplace: A Public Health Summit” (Summit). The Summit gathered researchers, industry and government Read More »
The Luv u Project proudly supports the 8th Annual “MCIW: Women Moving Forward Conference” (WMFC) to be held on April 8th, 2017 at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, MD. Since the Program’s inception, The National Association of Women’s Judges, along with countless other dedicated volunteers, have united to introduce critical resources and offer Read More »
We are pleased to share that a record number of entries were received for the 2017 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Excellence in Mental Health Reporting. The pool of entries include news organizations such as the New York Times, NPR, PBS Frontline, and the Washington Post. Judging will be conducted in April and the formal presentation will take Read More »
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Creates Mental Health Care Award in Honor of Richard and Carolyn Mattingly The Luv u Project is grateful to the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation for its new 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 Read More »
The Luv u Project is proud to announce that entries are now being accepted for the 2017 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting. Established in 2016, this top-tier award recognizes exemplary journalism that advances the understanding of and treatments for mental health. It carries a $10,000 prize. The award is open to any U.S.-based Read More »
The Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting recognizes exemplary journalism that illuminates and advances the understanding of mental health issues and treatments for the illness. The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, was established in 2016. Entries will be accepted beginning in mid-January and the winner will be awarded in May, 2017. The Read More »
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, winners of the first Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting joined over 100 special guests at the historic National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to celebrate their extraordinary body of work. Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times, and Michael Braga of Sarasota Herald-Tribune Read More »
The winner of the first Carolyn C. Mattingly award is a unique and powerful collaborative body of work by the Tampa Bay Times and Sarasota Herald-Tribune that exposes harrowing conditions at Florida’s institutions for the mentally ill after $100 million in budget cuts. The five-part project, titled “Insane. Invisible. In danger.” reveals the dangers to mentally Read More »
A Promise Kept: The Luv u Project Sponsors Annual Women Moving Forward Conference Supporting causes that Carolyn cared about continues with The Luv u Project’s sponsorship of the Women Moving Forward (WMF) Pre-Release Conference. The WMF Conference is an initiative held annually in partnership with the National Association of Women Judges and the Maryland Correctional Read More »