1. 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. 

2. 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. There is a parallel French award. 

3. 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. 

4.  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. 

5. There is no application fee. Individual journalists may make only one application per category. Media organizations may make a maximum of four. 

6.  Applications must be submitted through the on-line process accessible on the Mindset website from February 1, 2024 and 5 p.m. Eastern time on February 22, 2024.  

7. The award consists of a prize of $1,000 CDN and a framed certificate. It will be presented at a lunch event at 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. 

8. The jury may, in its discretion, award 1 or more Honourable Mention prizes of not less than $250 in addition to the main prize, together with framed certificate/s.

9. The winner/s of any award may, at their discretion, choose to direct that prize money be donated to any Canadian charity. The Forum, under Canadian charity law, is not permitted to make donations to foreign charities or non-profits, except for a few which have a special working relationship with the federal government.

Inquiries related to any aspect of this award may be directed in English to Jane Hawkes at 1-519-852-4946, jane.hawkes@journalismforum.ca or in French to Lise Villeneuve, at 514-895-2106, lise.mesdixdoigts@gmail.com.