Building Mental Health Care for Liberia (The Carter Center)

To learn more about The Carter Center, please visit http://www.cartercenter.org

Dr. Janice Cooper and her family fled Liberia's brutal civil war two decades ago. In 2010, she returned home as the project lead for a Carter Center initiative that, in partnership with Liberia's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, will build a sustainable, national mental health care system. Join her in the field to learn more about the challenges and opportunities Liberia faces to wage peace and build a healthier future.

Learn more about the Carter Center's Mental Health Program: http://cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/index.html

The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the Atlanta-based Center has helped to improve the quality of life for people in more than 70 countries.

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[marck224]

@loelninvoexr I agree with you 100%. We all know that our country is filthy rich and it will cost our government nothing to draft a budget that will provide compensations for Liberians educated in areas of need and are willing to come home and be of help to our national development. However, until we start to export oil, timber, rubber, iron ore, gold, diamonds, etc, it's in our nation best interest for educated Liberians to come and help the government regardless if they're compensated or not.

[loelninvoexr]

Mental health professionals are needed in Liberia,we have Liberians that specialise in mental health problems, professional psychiatric's, mental health nurses,and health workers that are living aboard and will be willing to come home and help with the work,the problem is these professionals has to be offer some kind of compensation to cope with the day to day living in Liberian.Remember that most Liberians living abroad lost everything during the war.

[zinnahblatee80]

Beautiful n educated liberian lady, we r bless 2 have u mama may God bless ur effort n strengthen u 2 make a difference.