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Third Year Comprehensive Report of the Pennhurst Longitudinal Study

"This summary is intended to restate the major research questions being addressed in the Pennhurst Longitudinal Study and provide executives, decision makers, and lay persons, in an extremely abbreviated form some tentative answers based on the analysis of the data collected to date. Such a report is necessary because the documents generated by the Pennhurst Study now extend into the thousands of pages." … Read More

Date: 1/1983

Author(s): Valerie J. Bradley, James W. Conroy

Further Explorations of Advocacy Models for the Mentally Disabled

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Date: 10/1982

Author(s): Valerie J. Bradley, M. Kristin Hoff, Michele Reday, John W. Ashbaugh, Virginia Mulkern

Pennhurst: Department of Public Welfare

As part of the federally funded Pennhurst Longitudinal Study, HSRI prepared yearly Implementation Analyses that focused on specific issues and actors.  The third of these analyses was an analysis of the steps taken by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare – both legally and programmatically – to respond to the federal court requirements to close Pennhurst State Center.  The analysis reviews the political and financial context within which officials at DPW were operating, … Read More

Date: 03/1982

Author(s): Valerie J. Bradley, Mary Ann Allard, Susan Epstein and Paul Nurczynski

Alternative Community Living Arrangements

Provides Developmental Disabilities councils and others with informatiion that will assist them in promoting and coordinating alternative community living arrangements and non-vocational services to developmentally disabled people. … Read More

Date: 9/1981

Author(s): Muzzio, Koshel, Bradley

Plan for the Closure of a State Mental Hospital in the State of Connecticut

This report has been prepared under contract to the Connecticut Department of Mental Health, and in response to Legislative Act 80-80.  This Act requires the Commissioner of Mental Health to develop a plan to terminate the operation of either the Connecticut Valley, Norwich, or Fairfield Hills Hospital.  The ensuing material was developed in three phases.  … Read More

Date: 01/1981

Author(s): John Ashbaugh, Mary Ann Allard, Valerie Bradley, Maryann Hoff, Michele Reday, Maria Gear, Robert Minnehan, Emily Cravedi, Sheryl Andrews

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