The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
2003-2004
Virginia Holman
Freelance Journalist
Durham, N.C., USA
TOPIC: An extended article on how children of parents diagnosed with schizophrenia have fared as a result of living with and caring for a loved one with a mental illness
Lessons from Loss
When Pat and Clancy Must teach the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill's free, 12-week, Family to Family class twice a year in Wilmington, they understand the experience of family members who have a loved one with a severe mental illness.
Mother's Mental Illness Colors Christmas
The JEB Stuart Home for the Aged was not much to look at on Christmas Day. I'd imagined today in the nursing home we would be jostling with knots of festive relatives visiting with their ill loved ones.