Mental Health Program - Program Reports

June 10, 2022
Taking Care of Yourself to Serve Others: A Well-being Resource Guide for Election Officials (PDF)
This short guide is intended to provide resources to election officials to help support their own well-being and the well-being of their colleagues and teams.

March 23, 2021
How State Leaders Can Improve Access to Behavioral Health Care (PDF)
Federal and state laws require that most health insurance plans’ coverage for behavioral health care be no more restrictive than coverage for physical health care. But Georgians often have more difficulty getting coverage for their mental health conditions and substance use disorders than they do accessing other medical care.

May 28, 2015
The Productivity Summit: "Improving Behavioral Health and Well-being in the Workplace"
On May 27-28, 2015, the Mental Health Program at The Carter Center, with the support of partners Pacific Resources and Sedgwick, hosted "The Productivity Summit: Improving Behavioral Health and Well-being in the Workplace." This event brought together stakeholders involved in or impacted by workplace disability, absenteeism, and presenteeism secondary to behavioral health issues, to help formulate and implement a more proactive and cost-effective approach to their management.

Nov. 8, 2013
Report on the 29th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: The Road Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Health Care During the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (PDF)
This report summarizes presentations from The Road Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Health Care During the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Nov. 7-8, 2013.

Nov. 2, 2012
Report of the 28th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium On Mental Health Policy: Beyond Stigma: Advancing the Social Inclusion of People With Mental Illnesses (PDF)
This report of the 2012 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy is organized along similar lines to the symposium itself but not bound by them. Its sections are delineated by the same topics - stigma and social inclusion, housing, employment, and integrated care and wellness - but each section pulls relevant ideas and statements from the event's entirety rather than solely from its associated panel discussion. Both keynote addresses are summarized, and recommendations from the symposium's working groups are called out in detail. Finally, the end of the report features a comprehensive list of the many resources - organizations, programs, websites, studies, books, and so forth - shared over the symposium's one-and-a-half days.

May 23, 2011
Carter Center, American College of Physicians, and Health Experts Release Report Detailing Solutions for Reinvigorating Primary Care System: Five Prescriptions for Ensuring the Future of Primary Care
A new report from The Carter Center and the American College of Physicians (ACP), "Five Prescriptions for Ensuring the Future of Primary Care," argues that an overhaul of the primary care education system-including adopting more rigorous training in mental illness diagnosis and treatment-is necessary to fully implement reform of the U.S. health care system.

Oct. 27, 2011
Topic Summary on the Twenty-seventh Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: Building Services and Supports for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence, Child Welfare, and Juvenile Justice (PDF)
This brief summary describes the issues surrounding child welfare, as examined at the Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, held Oct. 26-27, 2011.

Nov. 4, 2010
Report on the Twenty-sixth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: A Veteran's Journey Home: Reintegrating Our National Guard and Reservists into Family, Community, and Workplace (PDF)
A Veteran's Journey Home: Reintegrating Our National Guard and Reservists into Family, Community, and Workplace, Nov. 3 and 4, 2010.

March 5, 2010
June 2009 Carter Center Meeting of International Mental Illness Stigma and Discrimination Report (PDF) and Recommendations (PDF)
In an effort to assess the current status of stigma and to explore areas for improvement, a Meeting of International Mental Illness Stigma & Discrimination Leaders as held on June 23-24, 2009 at The Carter Center with the support and participation of the National Institute of Mental Health. The purpose of this meeting was to focus on two areas of importance in the field; one being the need to identify key stigma measurement challenges, and the second to discern where the field should go from this point with goals to identify the next steps to improving future anti-stigma initiatives.

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. 6, 2009
Report on the Twenty-fifth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: Health Care Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Health Care (PDF)
Health Care Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Health Care, November 5-6, 2009.

Nov. 20, 2008
Report on the Twenty-fourth 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, Nov. 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. 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).

May 17, 2001
Georgia at the Crossroads: Children in the Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Systems (PDF)
Report on the 2001 Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, May 17, 2001.

Nov. 8, 2000
Reducing Disparities: Ethnic Minorities and Mental Health (PDF)
Report on the Sixteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Nov. 8, 2000.

Nov. 1, 1999
Setting the Stage for the Surgeon General’s Report (PDF)
Report on the Fifteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, November 1999.

May 14, 1999
Recovery: A Journey for Life (PDF)
Report on the 1999 Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, May 14, 1999.

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.

May 15, 1998
Patterns of Wholeness – Children’s Mental Health: Generating Hope Through Shared Responsibility (PDF)
Report on the 1998 Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, May 15, 1998.

Nov. 20, 1996
Healthy Employees, Healthy Companies: Mental Health and Illness in the Workplace (PDF)
Report on the Twelfth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Nov. 20-21, 1996.

Oct. 18, 1996
Improving Access for Georgians (PDF)
Report of the second annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum, Oct. 18, 1996.

Oct. 2, 1995
Within Community (PDF)
Report of the inaugural Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum.

Nov. 18, 1992
Mental Health in Health Care Reform (PDF)
Report on the Eighth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Nov. 18-19, 1992.

Nov. 21, 1991
Physical and Mental Health: Closing the Gaps (PDF)
Report on the Seventh Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Nov. 21, 1991.

Oct. 18, 1990
Families Coping with Mental Illnesses: Improving Public Understanding (PDF)
Report on the Sixth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Oct. 18, 1990.