Finding Aid Search Results
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Creator:
New York (State). Commission to Investigate Provision for the Mentally Deficient
Abstract:
The series contains pamphlets and article reprints from mental health journals discussing topics relating to mental deficiency including patient diagnosis, methods and costs of care and training, epilepsy, and delinquency of mental deficients. A large portion of the records relate to Eugenics, the science .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract:
This series documents long range plans and establishment of policy for department programs. Records include budgets, reports, correspondence, memoranda, and long-term plans. These records help to establish activities of direction, control, and supervision of programs. Excluded are records that provide .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Education Department
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Series:
19354
Dates:
1978-1998
Abstract:
This accretion consists of subject files of commission chairman Clarence Sundram. Some records (boxes 4 and 5) relate to specific psychiatric and/or develpmental centers where incidents of staff misconduct; patient abuse, neglect, or death; and/or financial irregularities were investigated. These records .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled. Executive Bureau
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Series:
19355
Dates:
1978-1998
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of the outgoing correspondence of Commission Chairman Clarence Sundram. The files are tissue carbon copies through 1982, and photocopies after that date. An index log for 1978-1998, listing name of correspondent and subject of the letter/memo, is available..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled
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Series:
19356
Dates:
1979-1994
Abstract:
This series consists of copies of professional journal articles and speeches by chairman Clarence J. Sundram on a variety of topics relating to the status of care of the mentally disabled, the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, and the work of the commission..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled
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Series:
19576
Dates:
1986-2011
Abstract:
The series consists of case files of Surrogate Decision-Making Committees (SDMC) documenting the process of obtaining informed consent for medical treatment for patients not competent to decide for themselves. The files primarily provide information on the patient's medical condition, evidence used .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Committee on Mental Hygiene
Abstract:
This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, requests, hearings, reports, and proposed bills compiled by the Senate Committee on Mental Hygiene when Senator Manfred Ohrenstein was chairman. The records cover such topics as the organization and operation of committee proposals; hearings and investigations; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). State Board of Charities
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Series:
A1994
Dates:
circa 1890-1915
Abstract:
These photographs depict public custodial facilities in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. They include: exterior building views; interior building views; facility grounds; institutional residents; and institutional staff. The photographs appear to have been gathered for a report .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
New York (State). Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
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Series:
B2154
Dates:
2006, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2020
Abstract:
This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible websites of the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, which until July 13, 2010 was known as the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
10
Creator:
New York (State). Assistant Counsel to the Governor
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Series:
B2556
Dates:
1975-1979
Abstract:
This series consists of correspondence and subject files relating to mental health policy, clemency, the care of people with mental disabilities, the Willowbrook State School investigation, the reorganization of the Department of Mental Hygiene, the Rockland Psychiatric Center investigation, mental .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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Creator:
Craig Developmental Disabilities Services Office. Client Records Unit
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Series:
16437
Dates:
1950-1980
Abstract:
This series includes master microfilm copies of original terminated case files of clients served by the Craig Developmental Disabilities Services Office (CDDSO). The records filmed chronicle all services provided to clients, including administrative, legal, and programmatic. As such they provide clinical .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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