I think it was around 1967. I was supposed to spend that summer as a psychiatric intern at DeWitt or Sonoma State Hospitals and the program was eliminated becoasue they were going to do that stupid release. I bet if you ask the elderly homeless till floating around, most of them were in the State system till the late 60s. What a dumb move! By the way, I never went into that field, either. Jan in San Diego ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marciel Wood" <marcielwood@att.net> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [NORCAL] Agnews History Museum I was a social worker in San Diego County during the release of the mentally disabled in CA. Reagan was governor. The plan was was to relocate them to the counties that they were committed from and live with relatives, board and care facilities or live in dependently. The plan was a disaster I suspect in all of CA, because most of them stopped taking their medications. The Supplemental Security Program was law by January 1974 and these people were on the streets and costing the taxpayers a lot of money. I know because I worked with the mentally disabled trying to get them stablized and off the streets. Marciel Hart Wood Agnew was closed, I believe during the Reagan governorship so that would have been in the early 70s when he emptied all the mentally ill, brain damaged and Alzheimer's patients onto the streets. EdrieAnne ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________ From: EdrieAnne Broughton <edrieanne@gmail.com> To: norcal@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 10:18:15 AM Subject: Re: [NORCAL] Agnews History Museum ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message