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Download full textNew York State Div. for Youth, Albany. – 1985
This report presents data on the social, legal, and demographic characteristics of youth admitted to the residential programs of the New York State Division for Youth (DFY) during 1984. These programs offer services for youth referred by the courts, social services, and other agencies. The report is divided into seven sections. Section 1 outlines…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
White, Carolyn C.; And Others – 1989
This report presents annual basic descriptive and longitudinal population statistics on people with mental retardation and related conditions in state-operated residential facilities in the United States. Part I presents data on numbers of persons with mental retardation and related conditions, including first admissions, readmissions, releases,…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Demography, Institutionalized Persons
PDF pending restorationIllinois State Dept. of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Springfield. – 1970
The report provides statistical data useful to persons responsible for providing special education and related supportive services in Illinois for the mentally retarded and the emotionally disturbed. The data concern children and adolescents in these categories, aged 5-20 years, who are receiving special education services primarily in Department…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Services, Facilities, Financial Support
Peer reviewedJacobson, John W.; Ackerman, Lee J. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1993
This study reports on the extent to which pharmacological and behavioral consequences were applied to behavior problems within a population of 31,000 adults in New York's developmental services system. Findings indicated that these consequences were significantly related to variables of intellectual level, residential setting type, type and extent…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Lakin, Charlie; And Others – Policy Research Brief, 1993
This Policy Research Brief summarizes longitudinal national statistics on the number and characteristics of persons with mental retardation and related conditions living in state institutions, their movement into and out of those institutions, the costs of state institutions, and the growing numbers of closures of these institutions. Findings are…
Descriptors: Community Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Individual Characteristics, Institutionalized Persons
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1982
This document is a transcript of hearings conducted in Hartford, Connecticut, before the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Handicapped on the effects of deinstitutionalization of the mentally retarded. The bulk of the testimony was given by Connecticut officials and leaders in the mental health field. They presented evidence and case…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities, Group Homes
Prouty, Robert, Ed.; Lakin, K. Charlie, Ed. – 1995
This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1994, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. An executive summary…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Prouty, Robert, Ed.; Lakin, K. Charlie, Ed. – 1997
This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1996, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. Section 1 contains chapters…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Prouty, Robert, Ed.; Lakin, K. Charlie, Ed. – 1996
This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project on Residential Services provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the U.S. for the year ending June 30,1995, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. The report…
Descriptors: Adult Foster Care, Adults, Children, Community Programs
Vail, David J. – 1968
The guidebook is introduced by general observations on the Scandinavian countries concerning history, social policy, medicine, mental health, and psychiatric diagnosis. Discussed individually for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are the following areas: mental health programs and statistics; mental illness programs, regional, hospital, aftercare,…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Correctional Institutions, Drug Addiction, Emotional Disturbances
