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Mental Health Program - Program Reports

Dec. 1, 2009
Proceedings of the Carter Center's Medical Home Summit, July 7-8, 2009 (PDF)
As part of its efforts to assist in the scaling-up of evidence-based approaches to the more effective integration of primary care and behavioral care, the Carter Center Mental Health Program's Primary Care Initiative held a two day meeting at the Center in early July of 2009.

Nov. 20, 2008
Report on the Twenty-third Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: Unclaimed Children Revisited: Fostering a Climate to Improve Children's Mental Health (PDF)
Unclaimed Children Revisited: Fostering a Climate to Improve Children's Mental Health, November 20-21, 2008.

Nov. 7, 2007
Report on the Twenty-third Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: The Time is Now: Creating a Public Policy Action Agenda (PDF)
The Time is Now: Creating a Public Policy Action Agenda on Preventing Mental Illnesses: Twenty-third Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, November 7-8, 2007.

May 18, 2007
Report of the Twelfth Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum: Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illnesses in Georgia (PDF)
Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illnesses in Georgia: Report of the Twelfth Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, May 18, 2007.

Nov. 8, 2006
Report on the Twenty-second Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: Mental Health in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (PDF)
Mental Health in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: Twenty-second Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, November 8-9, 2006.

May 19, 2006
Report of the Eleventh Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum: Georgia's Mental Health Gap Analysis: Building an Action Agenda (PDF)
Georgia's Mental Health Gap Analysis: Building an Action Agenda: Report of the Eleventh Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, May 19, 2006.

May 19, 2005
Report of the Tenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum: Moving Medicaid to Managed Care in Georgia (PDF)
Moving Medicaid to Managed Care in Georgia: Report of the Tenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, May 19, 2005.

May  18, 2005
Transforming Mental Health for Children and Families in Light of the President's New Freedom Commission (PDF)
Transforming Mental Health for Children and Families in Light of the President's New Freedom Commission (pdf). Report of the Twentieth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy,  Nov. 9-10, 2004.  

Sept. 24, 2004
The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health: Implementing the Final Report (PDF)
Report from the Ninth Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, May 12, 2004.

June 1, 2004
The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health: Transforming the Vision (PDF)
The report from The Nineteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, held Nov. 5-6, 2003. 

Aug. 1, 2003
Status Report: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of the Country in the Wake of September 11, 2001
Report of the Eighteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Nov. 6-7, 2002.

May 21, 2002
Suicide Prevention in Georgia: Healing and Hope (PDF)
Report from the 2002 Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum.

April 1, 2002
Promoting Mental Health Around the World: Activities of the Committee of International Women Leaders for Mental Health (PDF)
An update, by country, of mental health activities sponsored by members of the Committee of International Women Leaders for Mental Health (Spring 2002).  

Nov. 19, 1998
Promoting Positive and Healthy Behaviors in Children (PDF)
Report of the Fourteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Nov. 18-19, 1998.