Client case files, 1950-1980.

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Client case files, 1950-1980.

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This microfilm is master negative 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 and administrative information documenting the state's institutional services to a substantial number of its mentally disabled population.

477 microfilm reels.

New York State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6686303

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New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene.

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Craig Colony for Epileptics.

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Craig Developmental Disabilities Services Office. Client Records Unit.

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Craig Developmental Center.

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New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

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Prior to 1978, the Dept. of Mental Hygiene was responsible for various services to the mentally disabled and mentally ill and for treatment oversight. It received patient admission lists from various public and private treatment facilities throughout New York State. Despite the 1978 split of the department into the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), facilities under the jurisdiction of OMRDD continue...