These People - Focus On Community Care For The Mentally Disabled

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Horizon House Inst

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Uses Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, as a case study to examine the issues involved in providing alternative treatment of mentally disabled individuals in small community care facilities. Includes a segment of a public forum on the subject, in which community leaders, neighbors, legislators and mental patients express their views and reactions to the issues.