Hello,
I wasn't saying that mental patients moving into Asbury and Ocean
Grove was a bad thing, just clarifying that is was true that there
were a lot of former patients living in the towns at one time. I am
aware of the discrimination that exists against former mental hospital
patients. I have visited therapists myself and am sensitive to the
needs of people suffering from mental illness and other health and
disability issues.
-heather
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The discussion of "escaped mental patients" I quite bizzare. Yes,
> Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, etc., had a large population of people with
> handicaps. But not for the reasons believed, such as: escape, State
> dumping, etc.
>
> Hotels and rooming houses were having a hard time due to he decline
> of tourism. At the same time, mental health theories were changing
> and people with controlable disorders were encouraged to try to make
> it in normal society.
>
> The State offered qualified facilities subsidies to provide for these
> transitional individuals in the form of housing and assistance.
> Hotels and rooming houses were converted to transitional care use out
> of necessity.
>
> If you were the owner of a large building, losing money and perhaps
> on the verge of losing your building what would you do? Conversion to
> care facility was a natural evolution in light of a subsidized client
> base.
>
> It was just timing not some plot.
>
> Werner
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