Up, Rosalynn Carter. She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five books and in 1984, or bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. Mrs. Carters subsequent book have focused on caregiving Mental Health care. A subject she has championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 years Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach, ending the Mental Health crisis. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and really neat to see so many peopleinterested in my book. Ive been on a book tour this week area i started on monday and i got the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how did you get involved in Mental Health . The second one is why did you write the book . So im going to tell you why i got involved in Mental Health. I was campaigningfor jimmy carter. You cant hear me . Im telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I was campaigning for jimmy and he ran for governor the first time and he lost the first time. We got in late. A leading democratic candidate dropped out and he was a big segregationist and this was 6 6. A long time ago. Im pretty aged. And so nobody would run against him. He was very popular jimmy said he cant just let them have it and we didnt have long to campaign and i never had the campaign but i drove from one town to the next and passed out brochures and went on to the next town. Very disorganized campaign. But 1963, the Community Health center act was passed in this was 66 and they were beginning tomove people out of our central state hospitals. They institution, overcrowded, terrible conditions into the community but therewere no community Mental Health centers yet. And i had so many people ask me what will your husband do with our loved state if hes elected governor. One day i was standing at the gate of a factory in Atlanta Georgia at 4 30 in the morning for the shift change. Thats a good place to be because the whole bunch of people coming in and passing out brochures this woman came out and she was really small. Elderly. Had lint all over and i said you could tell how tired she was from working all night and i said i hope when you get home you can get some sleep and she said i hope so too because, but we have a mentally ill daughter and we struggle to pay for her care. My husband stays with her while i work and i stay with her in the daytime while he works. And that worried me, what was she going to find when she got home . I worried all day, she didnt say which but her daughter was awake when she got home. I was thinking about whether she got him to sleepor not so that time , the same day i was running around and she came to town and the gym was going to bein the night. I thought it was a disorganized campaign and so i stayed, i got in the back of the room and he didnt know i was there it was close to the election, so i got in the back of the room and he was shaking hands, people came up shaking his hand and i dont know whether you stand in the receiving line but he would be talking to somebody like this and reach for the next. He did that, he had my hand and when i got in front of him he said what are youdoing here . I said i want to know what youre going to do when your governor or people withMental Illness. And he said were going to have the best program in the country and im going to put you incharge of it. Well, he didnt put me in charge of it is i didnt know anythingabout. But then when he was elected governor four years later , he was i think he was a month before he established the Governors Commission to improve service to mentally and emotionally handicapped and i worked on that for 4 years and we actually put community Mental Health centers in 123 communities but they were not comprehensive. Some of them, most of them well maybe not most of them but some of them were offices in the center of town where people could go to find out where to get help. But i was really proud ofit. When i left georgia. But then when i campaign because it had precedent and because it had in my bio that i was interested in the work on Mental Health issues everywhere i went in the country i came for a year and i was into state and everywhere iwent , if the people have Mental Health centers they wanted meto see if. If it was good and wanted to show it off and there were very few and if it was bad they wanted me to help them when jimmy was president so i just developed this real responsibility because when you get , back then people were still putting them in institutions and nobody wanted to talk about it. Even talk about Mental Illness. When lincoln was governor, somebody heard me at that meeting that night. And i always say that all the advocates in atlanta descended on me, all five of them and thats what it was, five people and when jimmy was governor and i would have a meeting it was a long time before we could get many people to come and we never did get it really, build up a big advocacy but my five advocates were always there and for a good while just a few Government Employees because my husband was governor but nobody wanted to talk about the issue so its been a very long time i got involved and the Governors Commission, the president s commission, i now have a really good program at the Carter Centerin atlanta. We live inplains georgia , its a 2 and a half drive south but we spend two weeks a month that we schedule a year ahead of time to be at the Carter Center travel with our project founder and i dont get home as much as id liketo. But anyway thats how i got involved. I actually got Mental Health systems act of 1980 passed. We worked hard and got past in october 1980 area. [applause] november 1980, and the president was elected and my Mental Health, a whole legislation was abandoned. We had even passed legislation and funded it and it was not perfect but it would have made a considerable difference. It was one of the biggest projects of my life. Well, thats how i got started. The other question was why did you write the book . Well, you heard how i got started and the situation then and moving out of the institutions and now, ive worked all this time. I think help for Mental Illness goes in cycles. Patrick, i heard him this morning and it goes in cycles about somebodys interested and doing pretty good then maybe the next president doesnt care about so nothing happens and you drift along for a while. When jimmy funded it, it had great funding to research. And then it drifted a while and then when first president bush came into office it was the decade of thebrain and he added to the research. Today we have learned so much. We have from research, we have new treatments, new medications. We now know people can recover and but the reason i wrote this book is because we spend 120 billion a year on direct healthcare, this company does. That does not count supported housing, supported employment. Anything else had just direct Mental Health care and millions are still suffering. I am so distressed about. I am angry about it because you know that people can recover and not have a system that works, it just hurts me. I wrotethe book because if i want people to know what i know , then we can get over the stigma which hold back everything we try to do. And go on to do whats good and right. So my book focuses on 4 major things. Recovery, today as i just said people and it distresses me so much because people can recover from Mental Illness and arehealth system , were going to have to shift away from controlling our Mental Illness and i have so many people that will tell me about that and one young man obviously dreamed of being a great artist and he was a teenager. I think he was a junior in college and i talked to the doctor and he thought he was going to be a great artist and we went to the doctor and he said well see. I think thats what happened in the past, you just said this is it and its going to be your life. So were now having to shift from a negative part to enforcing peoples strength and saying you can recover and we can help you. Thats what our Mental Health system has to do. So recovery is one,prevalence is another. One in four adults in this country for a Mental Illness every year area one in five children develop a Mental Health illness every year and Mental Illness does not discriminate. It happens to everybody. It happens to people on the street, it happens to poor, happens to rich and it happens to homeless. Employed, unemployed. It happens to ceos, it can happen to anybody. So its everywhere. And recovery is part of that stigma. Stigma is so distressing tome. It just pulled back funding for programs where people dont feel like Mental Illnesses can be can help so the politicians and policymakers, people like me who really try have a hard time convincing our officials to really work through Mental Health issues and i think thats going to, i hope thats going tochange. We got the parity bill and the healthcare, the new Health Care Bill. Has Mental Health and Substance Abuse disorders in the basic Health Package and im really excited. It does waive preexisting conditions. As Great Authority for training Mental Health professionals. And in 2003, in 2002 president bush had another dental Health Commission that reported in 2002 and did you know that when i looked at the recommendations they were the same one. The same ones i did in1978. Insurance of mentally ill people , it just distresses you whenyou look back and see what it is. And the report of that commission was that the Mental Health system in the United States is in shambles. Theres no way to fix it, we need to start over so with these two new bills now and with the Consumer Network program that is developing because consumers have originated and done the research on recovery. So there was a woman named Judy Chamberlain in 1978 wrote a book called on our own. And it was a subtitle was about consumers helping others. And then she started meeting with, she had had a bad experience with the Mental Health system she started getting together groups who had were living with Mental Illness and talking about how they can help each other. And it just grew into a movement and one of my friends who is on my Mental Health task force was one of her early people who had drawn in. He started the first Consumer Program in the State Government in alabama. My other friend is from georgia and has lived with bipolar and is in recovery with one of the others and he started the first Consumer Program in the government in georgia and he also then started working, they started meeting and they started bringing in people that they knew were living with Mental Illness and talking to them and mentally ill people need respect. They need housing. They need a job. So the Consumer Network help them with those things area and people recover. Some recovered without even taking medication anymore and some take medication therapy but they recover and live good lives in the community. Raising their families, working, young people going to school will have been living even with the major illnesses people can recover. And that in georgia, can you hear me in the back . Now in georgia the one who started the Consumer Network and the government, Consumer Program was able to get medicaid for the consumer counseling that appears and that in georgia we had 500 p or, i guess 500 p or Mental Health specialists, certified Mental Health specialists and they go from communities and just meet people. A lot of people now come to see them they go into communities and if they see somebody homeless, thats suffering from or living with Mental Illness, they fold them in. Its just been a Wonderful Program and now hes running all across the country. I think its in 40 states but im not sure but theres one in maryland i know because i had a book signing this morning and somebody from the Consumer Network let me sign a book to my Consumer Network friends. So i know its in maryland now. Its in others but the reason im optimistic about the future is because what we know about medication from research, from the consumers being able to help people recover, i think the movement is too strong now. I just dont think they can set us back and particularly since the government and the new Health Care Bill and the new parity and ive always felt that if insurance covered Mental Illness it would be all right to have it. It would legitimize it. And that would mean an awful lot of people with Mental Illness as i have high hopes. And the other thing is invention. Were now learning so much about prevention. Though much about building resilience in children and we have learned that Mental Illness sometimes is developmental. And i think 50 percent of all Mental Illnesses are diagnosed in children by age 14. 75 percent by age 24 and we have also learned and for any parents here with babies, we need Parenting Classes because when babies are growing, when children are growing they need the attention. They need, people need to watch their babies to see how their rapport develops. How they nurture with their parents develops. They need to watch the ageappropriate milestones like either they crawl at the time or walk at the right time. And even when theyre starting to Nursery School to see howthey react with their peers. And we need to get this word out because now we have, we know that if you detect that illness early and intervene, there are interventions that work, that mitigate the problem from developing. Sometimes they can prevent it from developing into a major Mental Illness. It always mitigates it, not makes it as bad. So those are the themes of my book and im pleased that you came out and im so excited thatyoure interested in Mental Health. And you can help because you can go to your policymakers and let them know how important this is and you can go to a community melt Mental Health center andvolunteer. The people who are interested and care about those with Mental Illness can really contribute and i just am pleased to be here and i think im going to besigning a book for you. Thank you very much. [applause] every saturday evening the summer book tv is taking the opportunity to open up our archives and binge watch with a wellknown author area tonight our focus is alittle bit different. Looking at books written by former first ladys. Next is former first lady barbara bush. She served as first lady 1989 to 1993 and was the author of five books including 2 memoirs. As she was well known for her Childrens Bookabout her dog. Her two memoirs were published in 1994 and 2003. Here is the late barbara bush discussing thesecond one , reflections at the texas book festival in austin. I love writing my memoirs and the urge to write was still there. I saw my good friends Mary Higgins Clark and told her that and she suggested that i write a novel and she said it would be very very easy. She recommended i do what she did. A plot, know the ending and work back. Mary told me when her characters talk to her they wont let her say something, she knows that shes on the right track. Its as if they tell her i wouldnt do that or i wouldnt say that. Certainly sounded easy so i sent forth to write a mystery novel. I made up what i thought was a rather interesting plot that centered around 2 female roommates, a Flight Attendant and a secret Service Agent who never stayed in town long enough to meet any attractive eligible men. They decided to get in touch with an escort euro. You know, a dating service. All the men, one woman dated ended updead. Now like mary i knew the killer and i worked my way back. I had one huge problem. My characters never said one word to me. I spent hours waiting. Nothing. An