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Children: Our Exploding Crisis

Title:: Children: Our Exploding Crisis
Creator:: Gorman, Mike
Date:: 26 October 1961
Description:: Gorman commended the San Francisco Association for Mental Health for developing a 12-week course to increase the psychiatric knowledge of public and private schoolteachers, and then discussed future strategies for helping the thousands of emotionally disturbed children in the U.S., including the recommendations of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health.
Location:: Box: 11. Folder: 16
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Speeches
Subject:: Community Mental Health Services, Juvenile Delinquency, and Child Psychiatry
Format:: Text
Extent:: 9 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: TGBBBV
NLM ID:: 101743403X17
Profiles Collection:: The Mike Gorman Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743403X17
Story Section:: A Full-time Activist: The National Committee Against Mental Illness, 1953-1963