The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships For Mental Health Journalism
2008-2009

Aaron Glantz
Freelance Journalist
Berkeley, CA

TOPIC: Report on challenges with post-traumatic stress disorder faced by veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan returning to school in the United States.

Did You Know 200,000 Vets are Sleeping on the Streets?
America's promise to "Support the Troops" ends the moment they take off the uniform and try to make the transition to civilian life.

"You Saved My Life"…A Reason to Keep Reporting
After six years of war in Iraq, it is easy to get exhausted and depressed -- to think that all your repeated exposures to the trauma of war are for nothing, that you are screwing yourself up for next to no money for no reason -- then something happens that suddenly gives all your work meaning, that gives you the strength to continue.