Hissom

[DolfanBob]

Here is a article about the infamous facility Southwest of Sand Springs. Growing up here everybody knew about the place. It had it's own little mystique created by the unknown of what went on there. I remember kids saying things like, Keep acting that way and they'll put you away in "Hissom" or "Vinita" almost as bad as being shipped to a "Leper Colony" There was just something about that name that to this day still makes me think it was a scary place where kids were taken and to never return. The article even mentions the removal of 300 cage like cribs.
Today's Mental Health issues with children. Is the past a possible future?

http://www.abandonedok.com/hissom-memorial-center/

[Townsend]

Maybe they have plans for it with the new "Mental Health First Aid Training pilot program" from the Oklahoma Security Commission.

[Vision 2025]

It is presently a pile of rubble.

[dbacks fan]

Here is a article about the infamous facility Southwest of Sand Springs. Growing up here everybody knew about the place. It had it's own little mystique created by the unknown of what went on there. I remember kids saying things like, Keep acting that way and they'll put you away in "Hissom" or "Vinita" almost as bad as being shipped to a "Leper Colony" There was just something about that name that to this day still makes me think it was a scary place where kids were taken and to never return. The article even mentions the removal of 300 cage like cribs.
Today's Mental Health issues with children. Is the past a possible future?

http://www.abandonedok.com/hissom-memorial-center/

God I hope not a place like Hissom. I posted a link to the lawsuits and court cases that came out of there some time ago, and places across the country that were similar are just horrid places. I hope that if a place for people in general that have serious issues could be opened, and those people helped, but not at a place like those. It's in a way similar to caring for our parents, we want them to have a level of care and humanity, but elder care places are just as potentially bad. This is something that I deal with on a daily basis as a caregiver for my father, and I can empathise when anyone else in that position.

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Quote from: Teatownclown on January 11, 2013, 04:36:26 pm

WRONG! It's what happens as a result of cutting out health services and out sourcing the issues to the Prison Industrial Complex.

How do you think public education will fare in another 20 years as a result of the voucher system?


WRONG DUMB A$$! The vast lot of those institutions were closed because of the physical/sexual abuse, neglect and inhumane treatment of patients in those facilities by the workers that were employed. What started the end of Hissom was the death of a neglected patient there.


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Homeward Bound vs. The Hissom Memorial Center

I. True Story

In early American society, individuals with developmental, mental/physical disabilities and elderly were cared for by the family unit. As the population of America increased and became more industrialized, society and family life became more complex because family members worked outside the home and often away from the community, so the care of individuals with disabilities became more haphazard. The numbers of homeless increased and many were abused/neglected. As a result, the need for more comprehensive program for individuals with developmental disabilities, etc. became urgent.

Informal groups were formed to care for large numbers of individuals with developmental disabilities, etc. These groups lacked sufficient funding and organization to adequately meet the needs of people with developmental disabilities. These groups were the beginning of institutions. The increased availability of institutions contributed to more incentive for families to place their family members and loved ones outside of the home.

The early history of institutions was not pretty. Individuals were chained to walls, beaten, subjected to poor hygiene and poor nutrition and were abused in ways which can hardly be imagined. The institutions were situated in the worst part of cities and in the country sides, "out of sight and out of mind." The institution became a self-contained, self-serving and self-monitoring system. It had little or no transparency or outside oversight and many were run by directors who acted as if they owned this population. What happened in the institution stayed in the institution and outside contact/visits by families or others concerned on behalf of individuals were discouraged or not permitted at all.

The institutional model, disempowered families and local communities, which shifted the power to government entities which demanded full control or no control at all. If a family wanted to provide care for their own, they received little or no assistance; however, if they chose to give up their responsibility and place the individual in a government-run facility, the average cost to the taxpayers was $100,000 or more per year. Institutions resisting releasing individuals from their care because their own jobs depended on keeping them in the institution. Can you imagine you or your loved one being kept in an institution of any kind, i.e. hospital, etc. simply because someone's job depended on it? (Pause)

a. Although there were many good people working in institutions, the system failed because it was self-contained, self-serving and self-monitoring, i.e., government as a provider in an institution was training their own people, providing their own psychological services, social services, physical therapy, etc. and those who were supposed to be watchdogs for the system were getting a paycheck from the system, which had little or no incentive to challenge the system which resulted in abuse, neglect, corruption and cover-up.


http://etl.org/etlhistory.shtml

It was a class action suit filed in Federal Court.

http://pilcop.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Hissom_Complaint.pdf









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