The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, in partnership with the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), today announces the launch of the 2023 Journalist Trauma Support Network (JTSN) training program. The JTSN program trains mental health clinicians to support journalists challenged by covering violence, crisis and tragedy. JTSN pairs newly-trained therapists with a limited number of journalists for therapy at no cost, and builds out a national network of qualified clinicians more broadly accessible to the journalism community.
“Pandemic, social unrest and conflict, threats and harassment are all taking a toll on news professionals’ mental health,” says Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center. “Establishing a community of clinicians committed to supporting trauma-affected journalists serves individual news professionals and advances a free and resilient press.”
