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...Association established in 1904. The building has been a central meeting place and the Association a structure for Harvard and Radcliffe students engaged in helping needy people of Cambridge and Boston. The Association added a new direction to this traditional goal in 1954 with its first experiments in volunteer case-aid work in mental hospitals of metropolitan Boston and neighboring communities. Students' effectiveness paved the way for further important developments in this field both locally and nationally. With the start of Project Tanganyika in 1960, the present Volunteer Teachers for Africa, P.B.H.A. introduced still another kind of program which required...
...Case-aid PBH Mental Hosp. Comm,; Choreographer "Finlan's Rainbow"; Commencement usher: Dancer Radcliffe Grant-in-aid Productions; Senior Sister; Jazz Dance Workshop; Cedar Hill Delegate; Radcliffe cheerleader...
...ward workers have been instrumental in pointing out patients who may possibly benefit from a case-aid study, LaMonte said. "We hope to have 30 volunteers working with 30 patients next year," he added. The present interviewers now meet weekly with Boston State social workers, but next year the Committee will have to hire its own psychiatric social workers to closely supervise the case-aid volunteers, LaMonte said...
...instituting an intensive individual interview program with ten volunteers this summer, the Committee hopes to lay the ground work for a case-aid program in the fall. Because of the inadequate records and under staffing of the state mental hospitals, the interviewers are indispensable in obtaining additional information about the attitudes and problems of patients, LaMonte explained...
Among the statistics which were presented to the President's Committee were those which compared two wards at the hospital in Waltham. At the end of two years, more than two-thirds of the patients visited by PBH volunteers were granted "grounds privileges," and some were placed in case-aid (individual work) programs. Those in the unvisited ward "regressed even further...