Mindset Award for Workplace Mental Health Reporting

FIRST PRIZE:

Tom Murphy, Linda Guerriero, Rachel Ward, Patrick Callaghan, Liz Rosch and Loretta Hicks at CBC’s The Fifth Estate, for Broken Honour, an investigation into how military police and justice officials allow cases of sexual misconduct to go unpunished, and the mental health consequences; broadcast March 12, 2021.

HONOURABLE MENTION:

Nadine Yousif, mental health reporter for The Toronto Star, for Stressed and overworked, nurses hailed as 'health-care heroes' are struggling to find help, published February 8, 2021.

Mindset Award for Reporting on the Mental Heath of  Young People

Two equal first prizes were awarded. 

FIRST PRIZE:

Robert Cribb with Morgan Bockneck, Charlie Buckley, Giulia Fiaoni, Declan Keogh, Radha Kohly, Liam G. McCoy and Danielle Orr of the Toronto Star or the Investigative Journalism Bureau at the University of Toronto, for the 2021 part of a two-year occasional series Generation Distress, published in The Toronto Star on February 19, March 15, April 26 and November 21, 2021.

FIRST PRIZE:

Simon Lewsen with photographer Chloë Ellingson for Inside the Mental Health Crisis Facing College and University Students, a 7,000-word article with photographic portraits and multi-media, published in The Walrus October 26, 2021.    

HONOURABLE MENTION:

Odette Auger, freelance reporter, for Gentle truth telling: How to talk to our youngest community members about residential schools, published in Windspeaker on July 8, 2021.

Le prix En-Tête pour le reportage en santé mentale au travail

FIRST PRIZE:

Angie Landry for Parler du suicide pour la suite du monde, published online by Radio-Canada on March 10, 2021. It highlighted how the psychological strains imposed on social workers by the COVID pandemic were worse than those of health care workers in the field of "physical health".

HONOURABLE MENTION:

Isabelle Burgun for Le Milieu communautaire ébranlé par la pandémie in Agence Science-Presse on July 26, 2021. The story detailed how support organizations for the most disadvantaged struggled to maintain the social safety net during the pandemic. 

Le prix En-Tête pour le reportage en santé mentale chez les jeunes

FIRST PRIZE:

Caroline Touzin for Une pandèmie dans la tête, in La Presse on June 12, 2021. She was the only journalist in Quebec to immerse herself in a psychiatric unit in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, to detail the impacts of public health measures on the mental health of adolescents there.

HONOURABLE MENTION:

Florence Morin-Martel for Peut-on la garder en vie, s’il vous plaït ? in La Presse on October 12, 2021.  The story highlighted a mother's complaint that her 15-year-old daughter with depression could not access treatment for it - even though she was "a real ticking time-bomb" - because she is also on the autism spectrum.