During the 2025-26 academic year, students at colleges and universities across Connecticut have been hard at work learning the fundamentals of Solutions Journalism, and then putting those principles to work in their reporting.
It’s resulted in a major project on solutions approaches to youth mental health on campus. You can see our stories in this special section of CT Community News.
By joining Solutions Journalism’s 2025-26 Student Media Challenge cohort we got funding to train our faculty and students on the basics of solutions journalism, and we set them loose to find out what’s working, and what’s not working, among the solutions being proposed to help stem the mental health crisis.
In this episode of Bylines New Voices, UConn Journalism recent grad Bridget Bronsdon, SCSU recent grad Avery Martin and SCSU journalism student Valentina Toro join CT Student Journalism Collaborative director Harriet Jones and host Brian Scott Smith to talk about the impact of this important project.
