The Board's seven members are appointed to
four-year terms by the Governor.

GREAT OAKS CENTER

Marvin M. Malcotti, Ph.D., Director

3100 Gracefield Road
Silver Spring 20904 Telephone: 595-5000

Great Oaks Center was established in 1967 as
the Metropolitan Washington Retardation Center
(Chapter 556, Acts of 1967). The Center opened
in the fall of 1970 and adopted its present name in
1971. Great Oaks serves mentally retarded and
developmentally disabled persons from Calvert,
Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St.
Mary's counties. It was the first regional center in
Maryland established to treat developmental disa-
bilities. The Center can provide care and training
for 470 mentally retarded residents (Code
Health—General Article, sec. 7-305).

Retarded and developmentally disabled individ-
uals receive a full range of comprehensive and di-
versified services and programs, including respite
care. Education, training, and habilitation services
and programs for the facility's retarded residents
are offered in both the Center and in the commu-
nity.

A day care program integrates programs and
services offered by Great Oaks. A Continuum of
Services Team, in the community, offers outreach
services, such as training parents at home to deal
with the special problems of their children so that
institutionalization may be averted. The Team al-
so helps local school teachers meet the education
and training needs of their mentally retarded and
developmentally disabled students. County health
departments and community agencies are aided to
develop resources for the mentally retarded and
developmentally disabled. The Team also assists
discharged residents in the community.

Citizens Advisory Board for Great Oaks Center

Chairperson: Vacancy

Evelyn G. Hill, 1987; Scott Daughhetee, 1988;
Rev. Roy N. Pea, 1988; Lucille H. Loewy, 1989;
Monroe Karasick, 1990; one vacancy.

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

HIGHLAND HEALTH FACILITY
MENTAL RETARDATION UNIT

Deloris M. Miller, Director

5200 Eastern Ave.
Baltimore 21224 Telephone: 276-7000

Located on the grounds of Francis Scott Key
Medical Center, the Highland Health Facility
Mental Retardation Unit opened in 1972. The
Unit provides intensive habilitation for physically
handicapped, mentally retarded, and developmen-
tally disabled persons between three and sixteen
years of age. The major emphasis is on mobiliza-
tion training for both nonambulatory and partial-
ly ambulatory individuals. A special education
program focuses on the special problems and
needs of mentally retarded and developmentally
disabled residents.

The Unit is budgeted for ninety-nine mentally
retarded and developmentally disabled residents
and forty-seven psychiatric residents (Code
Health—General Article, sec. 7-305).

Citizens Advisory Board for Highland Health
Facility Mental Retardation Unit

Chairperson: R. Terence Farrell, 1990

Dr. Robert C. Lloyd, 1987; Jean M. Taylor, 1987;
Kathleen Zeidler, 1987; Seth B. Canion, M.D.,
1989; Dominic M. DiPietro, 1989; one vacancy.

The Board's seven members are appointed by
the Governor for four-year terms.

HOLLY CENTER

Frank W. Gibson, Ph.D., Superintendent

P.O. Box 2358
Salisbury 21801 Telephone: 546-2181

The Holly Center was established in 1968 as the
Regional Mental Retardation Center—Eastern
Shore (Chapter 435, Acts of 1968). Renamed in
1973, the Holly Center provides living and pro-
gramming space for 250 residents. A full range of
comprehensive and diversified services is offered
to all retarded individuals and their families resid-
ing in the nine counties of the Eastern Shore. Ed-
ucation, training, and habilitation services and
programs are provided in both the Center and the
community for the facility's retarded residents
(Code Health—General Article, sec. 7-305).