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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter opens the annual Symposium on Mental Health Policy. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter testifies in favor of the Wellstone Act before a House Education and Labor Subcommittee.
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter greets children during a Carter Center visit to Tingoli, Ghana. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter hugs the youngest daughter of the Hlmenlike family.
A young Nigerian girl presents former First Lady Rosalynn Carter with flowers. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter greets schoolgirls suffering from schistosomiasis.
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter organizes observation papers in preparation for poll closing procedures. Former First Lady Mrs. Carter visits Abriendo Puertas, an Annie E. Casey Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children, Miami.
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter observes at an Indonesian polling station in June 1999. Photo of former First Lady and mental health advocate Rosalynn Carter addressing participants in the 2006 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy.
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter opens the annual Symposium on Mental Health Policy.
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Place: Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A.
Date: Nov. 8, 2000
Credit: Annemarie Poyo/The Carter Center

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter opens the annual Symposium on Mental Health Policy in November 2000. She was awarded the Surgeon General's Medallion, the only honor presented to civilians by the surgeon general.

Mrs. Carter has worked for more than three decades to improve the quality of life for people with mental illnesses. Co-founder of The Carter Center with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Mrs. Carter chairs the Center's Mental Health Task Force, an advisory body of experts, advocates, and consumers of mental health services that promotes positive change in the mental health field.