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Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow is one of the original characters invented by the creator of Dallas, David Jacobs. Before the creation of the show, Jacobs had quite a different idea of what he envisioned the show to be. He wanted to create a television show based on "family issues and examining relationships at the middle-class level". [2]
The first organization of families was the Children's Benevolent League, incorporated in 1936 in the state of Washington. [8] The San Francisco chapter was founded in 1951. [9] [10] [11] From 1953 to 1973 the organization was called the National Association for Retarded Children. President John F. Kennedy addressing the NARC in 1963.
Buckner International is a private adoption agency licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. [3] It provides domestic and international adoption services, foster care, and support services. [4] It provides services to over 2,000 individuals receiving pre-adoption services and 1,000 individuals receiving post-adoption ...
Kansas has separate in-home and community services programs for physically and developmentally disabled residents, together serving about 15,000 people. As of mid-February, the two waiting lists ...
The Arc Baltimore, whose mission is to support people with developmental disabilities, is helping families bring in some holiday joy this season. Baltimore-based disability organization brings ...
Dalworthington Gardens was one of five such projects located in Texas. Its inclusion in the group was at the suggestion of Eleanor Roosevelt, who happened upon the area while visiting the Fort Worth family of the woman to whom the son of her and President Roosevelt, Elliot, had become engaged. Of the five sites selected for this program ...
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The story is about a woman committed to a mental health facility. Prior to 1987, it was assumed that the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act allowed involuntary treatment for those who were detained under an initial three-day hold (for evaluation and treatment) and a subsequent fourteen-day hospitalization (for those patients declared after the three-day hold to be dangerous to themselves or others ...