CHAMPIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH

Features the winners in the Second Annual Mental Health Awards, which recognize people from the United States who have helped improve mental health. Albert Ellis; Brian Baird; Claudia Osborn.
By PT Staff, published on May 01, 2001

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Widely recognized for her time and dedication, Carter is an American Psychiatric Association Honorary Fellow and was the National Mental Health Association's Volunteer of the Decade. She also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.

Carter now chairs the Carter Center Mental Health Task Force, as well as the World Federation for Mental Health's Committee of International Women Leaders for Mental Health, comprised of first ladies, royalty and heads of state. At 73, she remains confident that improving the lives of those facing mental illness is highly attainable.

-- Irena Choi Stern

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