From: Bill Lucy 

In article , gaw{at}sover.net says...
> > The point that Rich and I were making is that a lot of these facilities
> > were closed *prior* to the mainstreaming. Governor Thompson started
> > closing facilities in Illinois in the early 80s, and it wasn't because
> > of lawsuits.
> >
>
> The mainstreaming started as early as the 1960s.

I don't disagree.

But, although the Community Mental Health Act provided some funding for
such, most states, including Illinois, had no facilities for mainstreaming
until the late 70s. The regulations for receiving the funding were, in a
word, obtuse. Almost all the mentally ill in Illinois remained in state
facilities until 1981-1982.

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