Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children Records
1949-1980
- Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children
UWM Manuscript Collection 22
.6 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr.
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Records, largely consisting of correspondence, documenting the group's attempts to change the established procedures for commitment of an individual to a mental health facility, and to reduce the financial responsibility placed on the parents of institutionalized children.
Alice Wright Gee, president of the council, generated the bulk of the correspondence which documents the activities of the group from its inception. The correspondence was primarily with the parents of retarded children, mental institution personnel, and politicians. Parents who contacted the council either pledged support for the organization or sought information on specific institutions. Mental institution personnel from other midwestern states were asked to respond to a questionnaire pertaining to the fee structures employed by their institution. The council needed to know the incarceration costs charged by these institutions before proposing alterations in the fee structure for Wisconsin institutions. Correspondence with politicians documents who was in favor of the changes proposed by this organization, and what steps they claimed to have taken to see the desired changes become reality. Although some portions of the records are incomplete or missing, the political activities of this group are well documented for the years 1949-1955.
English
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