Statewide mental health plan development schedules, 1979-1981.

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Statewide mental health plan development schedules, 1979-1981.

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The series consists primarily of originals and drafts of planning documents and research materials used to produce the five-year comprehensive plans for mental health services apparently prepared by the Office of Mental Health's Bureau of Planning Coordination in response to section 5.07 of the Mental Hygiene Law. The planning documents were formulated from local services plans following the framework of goals and objectives developed by the Council for resource allocation and evaluation processes for state and local services to the mentally ill, retarded, developmentally disabled, and to alcohol and substance abusers. Scheduled public hearings allowed comment by interested persons to member agencies on the planned objectives, directions, and activities. Of special note are draft material and interdepartmental memoranda of a working group made up of the Health Planning Council (HPC), the Office of Mental Health (OMH), and the Health Systems Agencies (HSA). This HSA/OMH/HPC Workgroup on Mental Health was formed to develop a priority package of mental health service standards and statistical indicators for use in gauging the progress of the mental health system's service and planning areas. The approach measured six systems characteristics (cost, availability, accessibility, continuity, acceptability, and quality) of mental health services.

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

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For the first fifty years of the State's history, local governments and private agencies were responsible for the care of New York State's mentally ill. In 1836 (Chapter 82), the legislature authorized the construction of the State's first mental health institution, the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, which opened in 1843. By 1890, the State had opened nine additional asylums for the mentally ill. Local governments were responsible for expenses of inmates at these asylums and continu...

New York (State). Office of Mental Health. Bureau of Planning Coordination.

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