Wednesday, September 24, 1997
MH-MR to begin new service; ends relationship
with CVCC
By JERRY DANIEL REED / Abilene Reporter-News
A project to enhance services to mentally retarded children
is in the planning stage, the executive director of Abilene Regional
Mental Health-Mental Retardation Center said Tuesday.
The center presently provides respite and early intervention
services to mentally retarded children, Executive Director Don
Teeler told MHMR trustees at their board meeting Tuesday.
"We're going now into the process of meeting some parents
of mentally retarded children, and school officials, and various
individuals, to determine what's the best way to start up some
additional new services," Teeler said.
The project will enable MHMR to serve more people than it served
last year, he said.
Also Tuesday, the board formally moved to dissolve "in
an orderly fashion" its relationship with the Crime Victims
Crisis Center. It had been the crisis center's parent agency for
its entire 20-year existence.
The advisory board of the crisis center last week revealed
plans to make the agency private by re-creating it as a 501(c)3
charitable organization to be known as the Regional Crime Victims
Crisis Center.
Teeler was named by the MH-MR board to work out the necessary
final details of the dissolution, including the transfer of funds,
other assets and records.
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