Two Carter-founded organizations are becoming one this year.
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.
The former first lady once said she believes “only four types of people inhabit the world: those who have been caregivers, who are caregivers, who will be caregivers, and who will need caregivers.”
We see it everywhere, the importance of how connected we need to be, and how important it is that we take care of each other, RCI Interim CEO Paurvi Bhatt said.
Now, the organizations are merging, the Carter Center announced.
“We’re taking the best of both organizations, and we’ve got almost 40 years of history focusing on the needs of caregivers,” Bhatt said. “It’s ranged from knowing in great depth what caregivers themselves need and how best to train them all the way through to policy and advocacy so that we can get the most resources placed where they’re needed.”
The merger is expected to be complete in June 2025, and Bhatt said they will “hit the ground running.”
