Rosalynn Carter Symposium Marks 25th Anniversary with Program on Behavioral Health in Health Care Reform

Learn more about the work of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and The Carter Center to fight the stigma against people with mental illnesses and improve mental health care.  Watch the video (5:04) >


Also, please join us for a live webcast of the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy:

    "Health Care Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Health Care"

Thursday, Nov. 5 - 1 to 4:30 p.m. (EST)
Friday, Nov. 6 - 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (EST)

The webcast will be streamed live on www.cartercenter.org

On Nov. 5-6, as Congress debates plans for health reform, more than 200 national health policy experts and mental health leaders will convene at the Carter Center's 25th anniversary Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta to discuss solutions for fixing the nation's broken behavioral health care system.

"Although one-quarter of Americans will have a mental illness each year, Congress hasn't considered the mental health needs of America's patients to the same extent it has other health problems," says Carter Center Mental Health Program Director Dr. Thom Bornemann.

"We hope this symposium, as it has done in the past, will raise awareness about the solutions available to the challenges behavioral health care patients face in getting and staying well."