Series 6. Mental Health Project files, 1959-1966.

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Series 6. Mental Health Project files, 1959-1966.

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Includes materials generated by and about the National Institute of Labor Education's Mental Health Project, regarding union mental health programs and mental health research and education in universities. Includes reports, letters, programs of workshops, pamphlets, and memoranda regarding the planning and administration of mental health programs in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and Missouri; mental health research and education conducted by the universities of Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Minnesota, Puerto Rico, and Columbia University, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University, and Rutgers University; and mental health programs for the United Automobile Workers, United Rubber Workers, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the New York Hotel Trade Council, the Sidney Hillman Health Center of New York, the New York Shipping Association, the International Longshoremen's Association, and the Retail Clerks Psychiatric Clinic. Also, news releases and bulletins of the National Association of Psychiatric Hospitals, American Medical Association, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association and NILE Mental Health Program. In addition, administrative documents, grant proposals, and proposals for research. Also, position and research papers pertaining to mental health programs for low income groups, collective bargaining issues relating to job security for mentally ill workers, mental health programs relating to labor and low income groups, development of a labor mental health program, mental health and negotiated health and welfare plans, the financing of mental health services and facilities, a rehabilitation project for union members released from psychiatric hospitals, technological unemployment and the human factor, long range planning for psychiatric care, the sociology of occupations and professions, and community workers' education programs.

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