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The Federal courts mandated that each state has to deinstitutionalize the mentally disabled wherever possible.

Meanwhile, it continued to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill.

"The trend is to deinstitutionalize," she said.

The goal in organizing a restaurant affair is to deinstitutionalize the proceedings as much as possible.

A. In the 1970's the Feds tried to honey the bait by providing grants to states to deinstitutionalize patients.

The experiment "accelerated the movement to reform mental institutions and to deinstitutionalize as many mental patients as possible".

Then there was the decision in the 1970's to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill, spilling homeless people and panhandlers into even the most affluent sections.

Since the 1950's, when anti-psychotic drugs first made it possible to "deinstitutionalize" mental patients, stays in psychiatric wards have grown progressively shorter.

"We are going to deinstitutionalize it," said Gigi Szabo, the senior project manager with A Community of Friends.

"We feel it's essential to deinstitutionalize the school and in small groups we get to know the whole child," said Dr. James Bolger, the principal.

Mr. Moynihan warned his colleagues this morning that the Republican plan could prove disastrous, comparing it to the drive to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill.

Is it with the movement to deinstitutionalize mental health patients, championed by advocates for the mentally ill, that had brought Mr. Bechard back to his hometown?

Recalling a Controversy Ms. Walker said she agreed with the Mayor that the drive to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill had been harmful to many of them.

But in the drive to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill, Long Island lost all but 1,200 of its 33,000 beds, and the upstate hospitals were cut to 5,000 beds.

However, in 1997, following the White Paper Act, the South African government made strides to deinstitutionalize mental health care and relegate it to the primary care setting.

Built in 1931 with 800 beds, Marlboro was the second large institution New Jersey closed this year in its slow move to deinstitutionalize people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities.

"Our idea, since this was a place for young people on the edge, was to deinstitutionalize the institution to make it light and transparent," said Henry Smith-Miller, a partner in the firm.

These maps, said Richard C. Wade, an urban-history professor at the City University Graduate Center, "institutionalize ethnic and racial differences, while the parties always wanted to deinstitutionalize them."

Thomas and his wife developed the Eden Alternative in the early 1990s as a philosophy to deinstitutionalize long term care facilities by alleviating the "three plagues" of boredom, helplessness and loneliness.

To some degree, experts say, Mr. Bechard's problems reflect the plight of the mentally ill nationwide since the movement to deinstitutionalize patients began in the 1960's after the development of psychotropic drugs.

In the early 1990s, Thomas and his wife, Jude Thomas, founded the Eden Alternative, now a global nonprofit organization that aims to deinstitutionalize long term care facilities by changing the culture of the typical nursing home.

As a young social worker in one of the early programs to "deinstitutionalize" long-term schizophrenics, I watched as Governor Reagan began dismantling the state mental hospital structure, in a curious and tragic coincidence of theoretical good intentions and blatant governmental double dealing.

Although the vast move to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill has emptied New York's mental hospitals of all but 11,000 patients, there are nonetheless 22 hospitals in the system - four more than there were even in 1953, when the mental-hospital population hit its peak of 93,000.

However, following the 1997 White Paper Act and the National Health Act 61 of 2003, strides were made in an attempt to deinstitutionalize mental health care and transfer the bulk of this responsibility to the level of Primary Health Care (PHC).

We wanted to deinstitutionalise the place and bring the school closer to real life."

Hope and Homes for Children are working with Governments in many countries to deinstitutionalise their child care systems.

The first point is the strong consensus for the proposal to deinstitutionalise psychiatric services; the aim of abolishing the internment and segregation of the mentally ill is seen by the committee as a step forwards in affirming the dignity of the person and, for that reason as well, Europe is fully entitled to deal with it.