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20 October 2009
Journalist and Carter Center Fellow Kelly Kennedy Offers an Inside Look at the Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on Military Families
This interview with Kelly Kennedy, reporter and recipient of a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, was published by Behavioral Health Central on Oct. 20, 2009. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, embedded journalists offered readers and viewers an inside look at the military's day-to-day operations. Kelly Kennedy, a reporter with Gannett's Army Times, was one of them.

19 October 2009
Understanding Depression in Black Men – A Talk with Carter Center Award Winning Journalist John Head
This interview with John Head, journalist and recipient of a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, was published by Behavioral Health Central on Oct. 19, 2009.
One Sunday afternoon in 1999, Atlanta Constitution journalist John Head was doing some renovating at his Atlanta home and was listening to a radio program as he tinkered. A familiar voice caught his attention. It was Rosalynn Carter talking about how she got involved with mental health as an issue, both when she was first Lady of Georgia and First Lady of the United States.

17 July 2009
Medical-home Model Aims to Put Patients First
The article was published July 17, 2009 on www.marketwatch.com.
If you could reorganize your doctor's office to deliver more personalized and continuous care, how would you do it? In what's known as a medical home, patients and primary-care doctors form the foundation. But it's far from a bricks-and-mortar concept.

13 July 2009
The Carter Center Awards the 2009-2010 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
The article was published on www.bhcjournal.com.
Seeking to end the stigma and discrimination related to mental illness across the globe is a key mission for the Carter Center in Atlanta, the foundation established by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, after they left the White House. One of the ways the Carter Center has worked to achieve this goal is by awarding fellowship programs to more than 100 journalists since 1996 — the only fellowships for journalists exclusively on the issue of mental health.

13 July 2009
Mental Health Experts Convene at the Carter Center to Discuss Effective Ways to Reduce Stigma
The article was published July 13, 2009 on www.bhcjournal.com.
"Mental disorders are among the most prevalent of all health conditions. We have effective treatments available, but the vast majority of people who need treatments do not get them," says Dr. Thom Bornemann, Ed.D., Director of the Mental Health Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, which was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn after they returned to Georgia. The program was originally patterned on resolving conflicts around the world, and it later expanded to vibrant health programs, including mental health.

18 December 2008
Watch Jerome Lawrence's interview on  WXIA-TV (NBC-Atlanta), on the Carter Center's "Christmas Card of Hope," Dec. 18, 2008
Jerome Lawrence, who has struggled with mental illness, donated a painting to the Carter Center's annual Winter Weekend celebration, Feb. 7, 2009. His painting "Tulips are People Too" was chosen for the Center's official Christmas card.

9 December 2008
Little Progress, Many Holes in Kids' Mental Health System
The article was published on CNN.com, Dec. 9, 2008.
As mental health advocates, policy makers, practitioners, educators and researchers gathered at the Carter Center to discuss the progress in addressing American children's mental health needs, a drama of sorts was reaching its conclusion halfway across the country.

20 May 2001
A Life's Mission in Mental Health; Cynthia Wainscott; Her Can-Do Spirit and Ability to Mobilize People Have Garnered Results
This article was published in the May 20, 2001 issue of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is reprinted with permission.
About a hundred of Cynthia Wainscott's closest friends gathered in a Buckhead restaurant recently to send her off into sort-of retirement. There were numerous jokes about the executive director of the National Mental Health Association of Georgia and her affinity for cellphones, including some about the intimate article of clothing in which Wainscott likes to carry hers.