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.
(Map)
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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