Syracuse Developmental Center Closure Files
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series contains meeting minutes, memoranda, closure lists, planning documents, notes, and reports relating to the closure
of the Syracuse Developmental Center. Also included are some Rome Developmental Center closure documents, which were used
as a model on which to base the Syracuse closure.
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Syracuse Developmental Center closure files
Quantity:
Inclusive Dates:
1988-1998
Bulk Dates:
bulk 1996-1998
Series Number:
B2374
Scope and Content Note
This series includes closure meeting minutes, memoranda, closure lists, planning documents, an information file relating to
closure of institutional care facilities (ICF's), Central New York Developmental Services Office (CNYDSO) Western Region Vacancy
Planning Reports, "SDC Facility Closure Plan: Final Report of Workgroup," a Syracuse Developmental Disabilities Services Office
(DDSO) Historical Committee file consisting of published reference material and information relating to the closure ceremony,
files of the Closure Ceremony Advisory Committee (minutes, notes, etc.), fiscal records relating to the ceremony (invitations,
catering, etc.), and working notes on development of the closure program "Expressions."
Some Rome Developmental Center closure documents have been interfiled with this series, as some were used as a model on which
to base the Syracuse closure. This material includes "The Rome Experience: A Chronicle of Events That Guided the Rome DDSO
Through Closure" (1990), written by its last director, Philip F. Catchpole; methodologies analysis used for the "Core Staffing"
proposal; Rome DDSO staffing narrative; and correspondence regarding patient "census reduction."
Related Material
B2373 Rome Developmental Center closure files, contains related records.
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Detailed Description
Dates |
Contents |
Box |
Accretion: B2374-14 |
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Main Committee |
1 |
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Executive Committee Minutes |
1 |
1988 Summer |
The Central New Yorker: As One Door Closes, Many Open
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1 |
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Closure of ICFs (census reduction) |
2 |
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Rome Closure Experience |
2 |
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Closure Study Group on Community.... [Rome Developmental Center] |
2 |
1993 December |
Comprehensive Developmental Center Closure Plan - Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities |
2 |
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Consolidation: Rome/Syracuse |
2 |
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Core Staffing - Business Office (1) |
2 |
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Core Staffing - Business Office (2) |
2 |
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Core Staffing - Business Office (3) |
2 |
1989-1990 |
Core Staffing |
2 |
1988 |
Core Staffing (1 of 2) |
2 |
1988 |
Core Staffing (2 of 2) |
2 |