A Cabin Radio report on Tuktoyaktuk’s Home of Hope has been shortlisted for a nationwide award recognizing reporting on the psychological well being of younger individuals.
The Home of Hope is a protected house for youth within the Arctic coastal neighborhood to play video games and discuss to volunteers about struggles they might be dealing with.
It was established by younger residents of Tuktoyaktuk in response to what Mayor Erwin Elias known as a psychological well being emergency that adopted a string of tragic occasions in 2022.
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Cabin Radio’s reporting featured a video produced by freelance journalist Karli Zschogner in Tuktoyaktuk, accompanied by further journalism from employees reporter Megan Miskiman.
This week, the Canadian Journalism Discussion board on Violence and Trauma introduced the report is considered one of 4 finalists for 2022’s Mindset Award for Reporting on the Psychological Well being of Younger Individuals.
Different finalists are CBC Information’ The Fifth Property, The Walrus, and Prince Edward Island neighborhood newspaper The Japanese Graphic.
Finalists for the second of two Mindset awards, for office psychological well being reporting, are The Globe and Mail (twice), Maclean’s and Windspeaker.
Cliff Lonsdale, president of the discussion board, stated in a press launch: “There’s plenty of excellent journalism being executed now within the psychological well being space. Selecting the finalists was laborious sufficient. The impartial juries, I’m certain, have a fair more durable activity selecting the winners.”
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Winners can be introduced in March and celebrated on the Canadian Affiliation of Journalists’ nationwide convention in April.