She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five looks and a 1984 her bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. This is carters subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. The subject shes championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach ending the Mental Health crisis. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and pleased to see so many people interested in my book. I have been on a book tour this week. I started on monday and i get the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how to do you get involved in Mental Health and the second one is why did you write the book lacks im going to tell you how i got involved in the to help. I was campaigning for jimmy in florida. That does make a difference. I was campaigning, and telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I was campaigning for jimmy when he ran for governor for the first time any loss the first time. A democratic candidate dropped out. He was a big segregationists and this was 66, long time ago. I am aged. So nobody would run against him. He was very popular and jimmy said we cant just let them have it. I had never campaigned but i got in the car and drove from one town to the next. It was a very disorganized campaign but 1963 that Mental Health care act was passed in 1966 and they were moving people out of the Central State Hospital because it was overcrowded in terrible conditions into the community but there were no community Mental Health centers yet. I had so many people ask me, what will your husband do with their loved one of central state if hes elected governor . People kept saying that one day i was standing at the gate of a factory in Atlanta Georgia at 430 clock in the morning from a shift change. Thats a good place to because theres a lot of people coming in and going out of passing out brochures for this woman came out and she was really small and elderly. I said and you could tell how tired she was from working all night. I said i hope when you get home you get some sleep. She said i hope so too but we have a mentally ill daughter and we struggle to pay for her care. My husband stays with her and i stay with her i when he works in the daytime. They worried all day about whether or not the son or daughter, she didnt say which, was awake when she got home. I was thinking about whether she got any sleep or not. The same day was riding around and it came to it town that you didnt want to be in at night. It was a very disorganized campaign. I got in the back of the room and he did know i was there. It was close to the election so i got in the back of the room and he was shaking hands and people were shaking his hand. I dont know if youve stood in a receiving line but its part of my life. He had my hand and when i got in friday said what he doing here i said i want to know what you are going to do when you are governor for people with Mental Illness. He said we are going to have the best program the country and im going to put you in charge of it. [laughter] he didnt put me in charge of it because i didnt know anything about it. When he became the governor four years later i think he was in office not even a month. I worked on that for four years. We actually put community Mental Health centers and 123 communities but they were not comprehensive. Most of them, maybe not most of them but some of them were alternates in a town where people could go to find out where to get help. I was really proud of it. Then when i campaigned because it had in my bio that i was interested in the work on Mental Health issues everywhere i went in the country i campaigned for a year, everywhere i went and if people had Mental Health day with wanted to say it and if it was good they wanted to show it off and there were very few. I developed this responsibility because back then people were putting them in institutions and nobody wanted to talk about it or even talk about Mental Illness. When he was governor somebody heard me at that meeting that night and i always say all of the advocates dissented on me all five of them. And then when jimmy was running for governor and i was having a meeting it was a long time before we could get many people to come and we never did really get a buildup of an advocacy. Just a few employees because my husband was governor but nobody wanted to talk about the issue. Its been a very long time since i got involved and the Governors Commission and the president s commission and we have a good program at the Carter Center in atlanta. We live in plains, georgia 2. 5 hour drive south but we spend one week a month that we schedule a year ahead of time to be at the Carter Center and we travel with their projects. I dont get there as much as i would like to but thats how i got involved. I got the Mental Health system of 1980 pass we worked hard and got it passed in october of 1980. [applause] the president was a lot did and the whole legislation was abandoned. We have even passed the legislation and funded it and it was not perfect but it made a considerable difference. It was one of the biggest departments in my life. Thats how i got started. The other question was righted the write the book . Well you heard how i got started in the situation and moving out of the institutions with nowhere to go. Now i worked all this time. I think help for mental and was goes in cycles. It goes in cycles without someone in it whos interested in it and its doing pretty good in the next president doesnt care about it so nothing happens in at just along for a while. My answer is great, fund it and with great research. When president bush the first president bush came into office it was the decade of the brain and he really added to the research. Today we have learned so much. From research we have new treatments new medications and we now know that people can recover. The reason i wrote this book is because we have been 120 billion a year on health care. That does not count Supportive Housing supported employment or anything else just to Mental Health care. Millions are suffering and i am so distressed about it. Im angry about it because to know that people can recover and not have a system that works hurts me. I wrote the book because i want people to know what i know so we can get over the stigma which affects everything we try to do and go on to do whats good and right for people with Mental Illnesses. My book focuses on four major things, recovery, and as i just said it stresses me so much because people can recover from mental emesis Mental Health system is started beginning to happen. We are going to have to shift away from Mental Illness but i have so many people who told me about that problem. One young man was training to be a great artist and he was a teenager. I think he was a junior in college would he developed, what to the doctor and talk to the doctor and told him he thought he was going to be a great artist and he hoped he could get wilson and the doctor said hell never be able to do that or you thats whats happened in the past. It was the business it and its to be for the rest of your life. Forcing people strength and saying you can recover and we can help you. Thats what the Mental Health system has to do. So recovery is one. One in four adults in this country develop a Mental Illness every year. One in five children develop a Mental Illness every year and Mental Illness does not discriminate. It happens to everybody. It happens to people on the streets. Happens to the poor, happens to the rich and it happens the homeless. It happens to ceos and it can happen to anybody. It is everywhere. Recovery and stigma. Stigma is so distressing to me. It holds back funding for programs. People dont elect Mental Illness as can be helped so the politicians and the policymakers and people like me who really try have a hard time convincing our officials to really work on Mental Health issues. I hope thats going to change since we got the parity bill and the health care, Health Care Bill. Mental health and Substance Use disorders in the basic Health Package does away with preexisting conditions and puts great priority for training Mental Health professionals. In 2003, in 2002 president bush had another Mental Health commission in 2002 and did you know when i looked at the recommendations they were the same one. Almost all of them were the same ones i did in 1978. Insurance for mentally ill people. It just to stresses you when you look back at it and see what it is. The reported that commission was the system of United States is in shambles. There are so many things we need to start over. There are two new bills now and what the Consumer Network program that is developing because consumers have originated and have done the research on recovery. Theres a woman named Judy Chamberlain who in 1978 for the book called all in our own and anna was a subtitle but it was about and then she started meeting, she had had a dad experience with the Mental Health system so she started to get together groups who had been living with Mental Illness and talking about how they could help each other. 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 are drawn in. He started the first Consumer Program in the State Government in alabama. My other friend who is from george and has lived with bipolar and is in recovery with one of the others and he started the first Consumer Program and the government in georgia. He also then started working as a Consumer Network and they started meeting in bringing people that they knew they were living with Mental Illness and talking to them. Mentally ill people need respect. They need housing. They need a job and so the Consumer Network helps them with those things. And people recover. Some were covered without even taking medication anymore and some take medication and therapy that they were covered and they live the good life in the community. They raise their families working. Young people are going to school. Even with major thomass people can recover. Bad in georgia, can you hear me in the back . Now in georgia the one who started the Consumer Network in the government, the Consumer Program was able to get medicaid for the consumers that were counseling their peers and in georgia we have 500 here, i guess 500 Mental Health specialists certified Mental Health specialists and they go from communities and just need people. A lot of people come to see them but they go into the communities and that they see somebody homeless suffering are living with Mental Illness they just bring the men. Its just been a Wonderful Program and now hes spreading it all across the country. I think its in 40 states but im not sure. Theres one in maryland and i know because i do book signing and someone from the Consumer Network had me sign a book to my Consumer Network friends. I know its in maryland now and i dont know other places where it is. It is growing and the reason im optimistic about the future is because with what we know about medication from research, medications and treatments and from the consumers being able to help people recover i think the movement is too strong there. I just dont think they can set us back and particularly since the government is in the new Health Care Bill and new parity bill. Our thought it would be all right to have it if it covered Mental Health. It would legitimize it and that would mean an awful lot to people with Mental Illness so i have high hopes is going to be a good future and the other thing is prevention. They are now learning so much about prevention and so much about building resilience and children. We have learned that Mental Illness is developmental. 50 of all Mental Illness is are diagnosed in children by age 14, 75 by age 24. We have also learned and for any parents here with babies, and we need Parenting Classes because when babies are growing, they need deep attention. They need, people need to watch their babies to see how they nurture as thereve parent develops. They need to watch the age at appropriate milestones like whether they crawl and time were walk on time. Even when they are starting to Nursery School to see how they will react with their peers. We need to get this word out because now we know if you detect that illness early and interventions that mitigate the problem from developing further sometimes they can prevent it from developing into a major Mental Illness. Those are the things about my book and im really pleased that you all came out and im so excited that you are 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 Mental Health center and volunteer. They always need volunteers. People are so interested in care about Mental Illness and im just pleased to be here and i think im going to be signing books for you. [applause] thank you very much. Every saturday in the summer booktv is taking the opportunity to open up our archives and bench watch with a wellknown author. And either focus is a little bit different. We are looking at books are written by former first ladies. Up next is former First Lady Barbara Bush or she served as first lady from 1989 to 1993 and was the author of five books including two memoirs. She was very wellknown for her Childrens Book about her dog nellie. Her two memoirs were published in 1994 and 2003. Here is the late arbor bush discussing the second one, reflections at the texas book festival in austin. I loved writing my memoirs and the urge to write was still there. I met my good friend mary higgins at a book fair and she suggested that i write an awful and she said it would a very very easy prey she recommended i do what she did, took a plot new the ending and then work back to a merry told me that when her characters talk to her she balked let them Say Something and she knows shes on the right track. Its as if they tell her i wouldnt do that or i wouldnt say that. It really sounded easy so i said for the two write a mystery novel. I made up what i thought was a rather interesting plot that centered around two female brew might roommates a Flight Attendant and a Service Agent who never stayed in town long enough to meet any attractive eligible men. They decided to get in touch with an escort bureau, you know a dating service. All the men when women dated ended up dead and mike mary i knew at the killer and i worked my way back. I had one huge problem, my theres the never said one word to me. [laughter] i spent hours waiting, nothing. And besides that my conversations were stiff awkward and really boring. So i decided to leave the imagination for the real writer and to stick to what i knew. After all, life has not stopped after the white house. The last 10 years have been filled with travel and new experiences, making new friends, working on things we cared strongly that in the usual ups and downs of a large close family. And some very exciting moments. Ill bet you didnt know that not long biker magazine declared me first lady of the century. Visit course accompanied by a picture of my head superimposed on a curvaceous body draped over a Harley Davidson bikes. [laughter] biker babe of the century think is what the headline was pretty was quite an honor and certainly worthy of another book and yes there were two sons and one who became governor and one who went on to be president. There really were some things i could write about. After the research i didnt have to do anything and trying to remember what happened when and who said what to whom i didnt have to worry about that either. Ive been a devoted diary keeper for years so i had to do was take m