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  2. Group home - Wikipedia

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    A group home, congregate living facility, care home (the latter especially in British English and Australian English), adult family home, etc., is a structured and supervised residence model that provides assisted living and medical care for those with complex health needs. Traditionally, the model has been used for children or young people who ...

  3. Central State Hospital (Milledgeville, Georgia) - Wikipedia

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    In the first decades of the 1800s there was a movement in several states to reform prisons, create public schools, and establish state-run hospitals for the mentally ill. In 1837, the Georgia State Legislature responded to a call from Governor Wilson Lumpkin, by passing a bill calling for the creation of a "State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic ...

  4. Deinstitutionalization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1955, the Joint Commission on Mental Health and Health was authorized to investigate problems related to the mentally ill. President John F. Kennedy had a special interest in the issue of mental health because his sister, Rosemary, had been lobotomized at the age of 23 at the request of her father. [1]

  5. Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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    The Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation is a community mental health service model that helps people with a history of serious mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it; it builds on people's strengths and provides mutual support, along with professional staff support, for people to receive prevocational work training, educational opportunities, and social support.

  6. Halfway house - Wikipedia

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    The majority of programs in the United States make a distinction between a halfway house and a sober/recovery house.A halfway house has an active rehabilitation treatment program run throughout the day, where the residents receive intensive individual and group counseling for their substance abuse while they establish a sober support network, secure new employment, and find new housing.

  7. The 10 Most Infamous Family Inheritance Feuds - AOL

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    Three years and $10 million in legal fees later, a judge found that Johnson had not been mentally competent when he signed his will, and ordered Piasecka to pay Johnson's children $160 million. 8 ...