The Administration operates residential facili-
ties and also provides funds for purchased care,
group homes and apartments, small residential
centers, and activity programs for mentally re-
tarded persons. In addition, the Administration
includes Supplemental Security Income Eligible/
Disabled Children's Programs, Family Support
Services, and Continuum of Care Teams. These
teams initiate, coordinate, and evaluate programs
in five regions of the State. Team members pro-
vide consultation and assistance to local govern-
ments and other local resource agencies in the de-
velopment of plans, program priorities, and
requests for funds (Code Health—General Arti-
cle, sees. 7-101 through 7-1201).

The Program for Hearing-Impaired Infants was
established in 1985 (Chapter 402, Acts of 1985).
Under the Administration, the Program is for ear-
ly identification and follow-up of infants who have
a risk factor for developing a hearing impairment.

The Administration operates eight facilities:
Brandenburg Center, Victor Cullen Center, Great
Oaks Center, Highland Health Facility Mental
Retardation Unit, Holly Center, Potomac Center,
Rosewood Center, and the Mental Retardation
Unit of the Walter P. Carter Community Mental
Health and Retardation Center. The Community
Services Advisory Commission, the Advisory
Council for the Program for Hearing-Impaired
Infants, and numerous citizens advisory boards al-
so serve the Administration.

BRANDENBURG CENTER

Carolyn K. Brown, Program Administrator

P.O. Box 1722
Country Club Road
Cumberland 21502 Telephone: 777-2250

Opened on October 23, 1978, as the Thomas B.
Finan Center—Mental Retardation and Develop-
mental Disabilities Unit, the Brandenburg Center
adopted its present name in 1981. The Center
serves the residential needs of retarded adults in
Allegany and Garrett counties (Code 1957, Art.
59A, sec. 19). Brandenburg Center is a multipur-
pose health facility. The Center provides occupa-
tional, physical, speech, and hearing therapies; so-
cial services; and medical supervision to its clients
(Code Health—General Article, sec. 7-305).

The major goal of the Center is to habilitate cli-
ents so they might return to a community setting
of a less restrictive nature. Service capability is for
fifty clients.

Citizens Advisory Board for Brandenburg Center

Chairperson: Lawrence V. Kelly, 1987

C. Fleurette Brandenburg, 1987; Albert Coviello,
1987; Randjit S. Dhillon, 1987; Joseph F. Yutzy,
1988; Wilba McLaughlin, 1989; Betty June
Dougan, 1990.

The Governor appoints the Board's seven mem-
bers to four-year terms.

VICTOR CULLEN CENTER

Steven M. Haigh, Program Administrator
Sabillasville 21780 Telephone: 241-3131

Origins of the Victor Cullen Center date to
1908, when the State Sanatorium was established.
In 1949, the Board of Public Works renamed the
Sanatorium as the Victor Cullen State Hospital, a
tuberculosis hospital under the oversight of the
State Department of Health. In 1965, the Victor
Cullen School was established as a training school
for male minors under the State Department of
Public Welfare (Chapter 818, Acts of 1965). The
School, in 1967, became part of the Juvenile
Services Administration. In January 1974, it was
transferred from the jurisdiction of Juvenile
Services to what is now the Developmental Disa-
bilities Administration. The School was then
renamed the Victor Cullen Center.

The Center is oriented toward a nonmedical
model of education, training, and habilitation for
all of its severely and profoundly retarded re-
sidents. The purpose is to prepare residents to re-
turn to the community within a five-year period.
Individualized programs are designed to achieve
this goal, and residents use the generic services
provided by doctors, dentists, speech therapists,
occupational therapists, physical therapists, and
pharmaceutical services in the local community.
More than half of the residents attend day train-
ing in the community. The Center is budgeted for
ninety residents (Code Health—General Article,
sec. 7-305).

Citizens Advisory Board for Victor Cullen
Center

Chairperson: Robert M. Preston, 1988

Doris D. Remsberg, 1987; Joseph K. Scott, 1987;
Samuel W. Inmon, 1988; Alfred A. Pansa, 1989;
Mary V. Schnurr, 1989; William 0. Lee, Jr.,
1990.