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How behavioral health services in Georgia schools are helping build kids’ resilience
By Helen Robinson Associate Director, Public Policy, Carter Center Mental Health Program The fear faced by children across Georgia stays with Marnie Braswell. Ask about students’ mental health and she’ll tell you of the boy whose grandfather died last year and whose father just tested positive for Covid-19. “I can’t…
Kristyn Wellesley to lead The Carter Center’s newsroom collaborative on access to mental health services
Kristyn Wellesley, a newsroom leader with deep experience in fact-checking, audience development and collaboration, will run The Carter Center Mental Health Program’s solutions-based, 5-newsroom U.S. collaborative on national access to mental health services and how lack of access is impacting local communities. Atlanta, GA (February 1, 2021) — The Carter…
Carter Fellow Julianne Hill’s award-winning story leads to funding for psychiatric unit as prison alternative
By Susan Pearson Hunsinger Program Associate, The Carter Center Mental Health Program When college student Andrew Butler needed mental health treatment, his father took him to the only state hospital in New Hampshire offering mental health services. But while there, after attempting to hit his dad, they transferred Butler to…
Greg Miller Interviews Vikram Patel
December 5, 2013 Former fellow Greg Miller has a new piece out in WIRED Magazine about the preeminent psychiatrist Vikram Patel. Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is one of the leaders in the global mental health movement and well known for his strategy of…
Finding Human Stories beyond a Tipping Point: What’s behind the ACA?
October 8, 2013 By Ron Manderscheid, Ph.D. The first of October was a tipping point for the American people. On that day, the United States joined all other developed countries in moving toward universal health insurance coverage. A total of 39 million poor and near-poor Americans became eligible to enroll…
Advisory Board member Larry Fricks testified at Senate hearing on mental health
February 14, 2013 On January 24, 2013, Larry Fricks, Advisory Board member and Senior Consultant for the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, testified at a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing on “Assessing the State of America’s Mental Health System.” You can access a PDF file…