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Howie Davis Introduces Mrs. SwansonBureau of Maternal and Child Health Public Health Service The state director and some of his staff of the Minnesota Mental Illness, Mental Retardation Inebriacy (Mental Health) Program were dissatisfied with the status of the State Hospital Program, the Community Mental Health Program, the Mental Health Programs of the County Welfare Departments and the Central Office, and they decided to define and address these dissatisfactions. Howie Davis provided major doses of the energy and thought involved in these efforts. Included in the concerns about the status of these programs were the following : (a) What were the social purposes that these programs were intended to be instrumental in promoting or achieving? (b) How could these social purposes be identified by the Central Office? (c) How could staff from each of the above major program components participate in the process from the beginning? (d) How could the extent to which each program was fulfilling its social purposes be determined? (e) How could the success of each program in fulfilling its purposes be increased? Application was made to NIMH for a grant to support the effort. When the application was approved, I was recruited as the Project Director. I arrived in July 1962 only to learn that Howie was soon to be leaving Minnesota for a job with NIMH. Howie and I had known each other for a number of years as the Chief Psychologists in our respective states. Now we could brag that with the two of us, Minnesota had the biggest psychology staff in the 50 states!
Science Communication, Vol. 8, No. 2,
222-228 (1986) |
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