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The Center is oriented toward a nonmedical
model of education, training, and habilitation for
all of its severely and profoundly retarded resi-
dents. The goal of the program is to prepare resi-
dents to return to the community within a five-
year period. Individualized programs are prepared
to implement this long-range goal, and residents
use the generic services provided by doctors, den-
tists, speech therapists, occupational therapists,
physical therapists, and pharmaceutical services
in the local community. More than half of the
residents attend day training in the community.
The Center is budgeted for ninety residents (Code
Health-General Article, sec. 7-305).

CITIZENS AD VISOR Y BOARD FOR
VICTOR CULLEN CENTER

Chairperson: Delbert G. Summerville, 1982

Charles L. Mobley, Jr., 1983; Paul Puskar, 1983;
Mary V. Schnurr, 1983; Dr. Eileen Steele,
1983; Alexander Weinstein, 1984; Alfred A.
Pansa, 1985.

GREAT OAKS CENTER

Clifford P. Lockyer, Director

12001 Cherry Hill Road
Silver Spring 20904 Telephone: 595-5000

Great Oaks Center was established by Chapter
556, Acts of 1967, as the Metropolitan Washing-
ton Retardation Center. It adopted its present
name in 1971. Great Oaks Center opened in the
fall of 1970 to serve mentally retarded and devel-
opmentally disabled persons from Calvert,
Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St.
Mary's counties. Great Oaks was the first region-
al center established by the Mental Retardation
and Developmental Disabilities Administration.

The first phase of construction provided care
and training for 200 mentally retarded residents
and a 30-bed infirmary. The second phase of con-
struction was completed in September 1974, pro-
viding living and programming space for an addi-
tional 270 residents (Code Health-General
Article, sec. 7-305).

Retarded and developmentally disabled indi-
viduals receive a full range of comprehensive and
diversified services and programs, including re-
spite care. Education, training, and habilitation
services and programs for the facility's retarded
residents are offered in both the Center and in
the community.

A day care program integrates programs and

services offered by Great Oaks. A Continuum of
Services Team serves several outreach functions in
the community, such as training parents in their
homes to deal with the special problems of their
children so that institutionalization may be
averted. The team also works with teachers in lo-
cal schools to aid them with the education and
training needs of their mentally retarded and de-
velopmentally disabled students. County health
departments and community agencies are assisted
in the development of resources for the mentally
retarded and developmentally disabled. The team
also provides follow up services for discharged
residents to assist them in the community.

CITIZENS AD VISOR Y BOARD FOR
GREAT OAKS CENTER

Mildred Parker, 1983; Thomas G. Bennett, Sr.,
Ph.D., 1984; Barbara L. Kane, 1984; Marian
Sterling, 1984; Harold L. Flannagan, 1985;
Monroe Karasik, 1986.

HENRYTON CENTER

Charles L. Leight, Director
Henryton 21080

Telephone: 795-2400

The Henryton Center was established in 1922
for the care of tuberculosis patients (Chapter 464,
Acts of 1922). In 1963, the hospital was trans-
ferred to the Department of Mental Hygiene
(Chapter 110, Acts of 1963). A training and ha-
bilitation program is conducted for severely and
profoundly retarded ambulatory residents ages
eighteen years and over. Admission is through
the Division of Special Services of the Mental Re-
tardation and Developmental Disabilities Admin-
istration. Some Center residents participate in
community-based activity programs. Respite care
is available on a limited basis to Howard, Carroll,
Anne Arundel, and Harford counties. Requests
for respite care also are made through the Divi-
sion of Special Services. Henryton is licensed for
330 residents (Code Health-General Article, sec.
7-305).

CITIZENS AD VISOR Y BOARD FOR
H EN R YTON CENTER

Elaine Boyd, 1983; Alan Lovell, 1984; Mary
Weston, 1984; Robert R. White, 1984; Maxine
Warfield, 1984; Nancy H. Bennett, 1985.