The major goal of the Unit is to habilitate clients
so they might return to a community setting of a
less restrictive nature. Service capability is for fifty
clients.

Citizens Advisory Board for Brandenburg
Center

Chairperson: Lawrence V. Kelly, 1987

Victor E. Kelbaugh, 1985; Betty June Dougan,
1986; C. Fleurette Brandenburg, 1987; Albert E.
Brant, 1987; Albert Coviello, 1987; Joseph F.
Yutzy, 1988.

The Governor appoints the Board's seven mem-
bers to four-year terms.

VICTOR CULLEN CENTER

Steven M. Haigh, Program Administrator
Sabillasville 21780 Telephone: 241-3131

Origins of the Victor Cullen Center date to 1908,
when the State Sanatorium was established. In
1949 the Board of Public Works renamed the
Sanatorium as the Victor Cullen State Hospital, a
tuberculosis hospital under the oversight of the
State Department of Health. In 1965 the Victor
Cullen Center was established as a training school
for male minors under the State Department of
Public Welfare (Chapter 818, Acts of 1965). It was
transferred to the Juvenile Services Administration
on July 1, 1967. In January 1974 the Victor Cullen
School was transferred from the jurisdiction of
Juvenile Services to what is now the Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Ad-
ministration. It was then redesignated as the Victor
Cullen Center.

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
residents 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,
dentists, 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 Advisory Board for Victor Cullen
Center

Chairperson: Vacancy

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Alfred A. Pansa, 1985; Samuel W. Inmon, 1987;
Mary V. Schnurr, 1987; Dr. Eileen Steele, 1987;
three vacancies.

The Board's seven members are appointed to
four-year terms by the Governor.

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 Washington
Retardation Center. It adopted its present name in
1971. Great Oaks Center opened in the fall of 1970
to serve mentally retarded and developmentally
disabled persons from Calvert, Charles, Montgom-
ery, Prince George's, and St. Mary's counties.
Great Oaks was the first regional center estab-
lished by the Mental Retardation and Develop-
mental Disabilities Administration. The Center
can provide care and training for 470 mentally
retarded residents (Code Health-General Article,
sec. 7-305).

Retarded and developmentally disabled individ-
uals receive a full range of comprehensive and
diversified services and programs, including respite
care. Education, training, and habilitation services
and programs for the facility's retarded residents
are offered in both the Center and in the communi-
ty.

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 avert-
ed. The team also works with teachers in local
schools to aid them with the education and train-
ing needs of their mentally retarded and develop-
mentally disabled students. County health depart-
ments and community agencies are assisted in the
development of resources for the mentally retarded
and developmentally disabled. The team also pro-
vides follow up services for discharged residents to
assist them in the community.

Citizens Advisory Board for Great Oaks
Center

Chairperson: Harold L. Flannagan, 1985

Mildred Parker, 1985; Monroe Karasick, 1986;
Scott Daughhetee, 1988; Barbara L. Kane, 1988;