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110 MARYLAND MANUAL VICTOR CULLEN SCHOOL David L. Curran, Superintendent Sabillasville (Frederick County) 21780 Telephone: 241-3131 By Chapter 818, Acts of 1966, the State Department of Public Welfare (now the Department of Social Services) was authorized to establish, maintain and operate a training school for male minors to be known as the Victor Cullen School. The School was transferred to the Department of Juvenile Services on July 1, 1967. Prior to the enactment of this act, the facilities were known as the Victor Cullen State Hospital, a tuberculosis hospital, under the general manage- ment of the State Department of Health originally established in 1908 as the State Sanitorium. The School serves boys between the ages of fifteen and fifteen and a half years of age received on direct com- mitment or on transfer from the Maryland Training School for Boys, Boys' Village of Maryland or from the juvenile courts. Similarly, the School may transfer boys to either of the other boys' institutions or to the Boys' Forestry Camps. During the 1969 fiscal year, the School served a total of 360 boys and maintained an average daily population of 132.
MARYLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER Robert G. Hilson, Superintendent 5200 Westland Boulevard, Baltimore 21227 Telephone: 247-0011 •By Chapter 98, Acts of 1956, the General Assembly authorized the construction of the Maryland Children's Center, which is a 112-bed facility in Baltimore County. The Center, when it opened in 1966, had a capacity of 56. It was increased to its present capacity in 1967. The Center may detain a child, under court order, pending further disposition by the Court. It studies and evaluates each child as to causes of behavior and makes recommendations to the courts and the Department regarding an appropriate treatment. The study in- cludes psychiatric, social, psychological, medical, educational and group living evaluations. In terms of budget and administration, the Maryland Children's Center is considered as a single unit with the Waxter Children's Center. Thomas J. S. Waiter Children's Center 375 Red Clay S.W. Laurel 20810 Telephone: 247-0011 Opened in November 1963, the Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center has the same Superintendent and the same powers and re- sponsibilities as the Maryland Children's Center. Initially known as the Southern Maryland Children's Center, it was authorized by Chap- ter 38, Acts of 1962. It received its present name by Chapter 131, Acts of 1963. The Waxter Center provides overnight and weekend detention serv- ices to the Courts where a complete diagnostic evaluation is not re- quested. The Center has a forty bed capacity and is situated in Anne Arundel County. |
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