Carter Center Mental Health Program to Merge With Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers

The merger, to be completed by June 2025, will connect two issues — mental health and caregiving — championed by the late former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter.

The Carter Center’s Mental Health Program focuses on public policy, school-based mental health, strengthening mental health care capacity globally, and fostering quality media coverage of mental health and substance use disorders throughout the world.

Rosalynn Carter founded her Institute for Caregivers in 1987 as a commitment to prioritizing America’s family caregivers, defined as those providing care to someone who is aging, ill, or disabled.