There is a downside to the change away from the developmental center model. Community inclusion, deinstitutionalization, and normalization has pushed the intermediate care facilities(ICF) to the front for residential options with the dd population. State-by-state, residents are pushed out of the system to private organizations responsible for their care. Within the ICF, there is less accountability from a fox-building-the-henhouse effect. From a centralized community where residents and staff are familiar, we have moved to placing residents interspersed in less-than-welcoming neighborhoods where essential services are diluted and distanced. Part of this is due to each state's annual kabuki dance to cut programs and slash spending. This is not to fault the people that have dedicated their careers to this field before or after, but to give voice to the other side of the coin.

The music while people were talking about such an important issue, was utterly annoying .

Ts just pissed me tf off

,💫🤪ty think globally act locally

this show that government and people do not care about

I have a learning disability and I am sure that I would have been in the place like that

to all of the government you are to blame for the murded of these kids

shame on those evil so called family members

sadly these places did not help anyone they murded thousands of people

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NYS IS CORRUPT AND ALWAYS WILL BE AND ALL THESR LAWS ARE BROKEN ALL HE TIME AND NOTHING IS OR WILL EVER BE DONE ABOUT IT....

NYS ISNT SHYT BUT A CORRUPT STATE AND ALWAYS WILL BE

coached interviews, ironically taking advantage of the mentally disabled for a pr stunt with Rfk and geraldo. Now these same disabled people are on our streets, homeless, and being taken advantage of

A dear friend of mine was called in to conduct rehabilitative dance therapy (which is much more than it sounds) with the Willowbrook victims immediately after this expose had halted its previous functioning. She described to me many scenes much worse even than the ones depicted here. e.g. concrete-floored rooms sloped to drains in the center, around which were chained naked inmates. They were fed with slop and mashed potatoes, by an attendant who went around the room shoveling the food into the inmates' mouths with big tablespoons without regard to choking. The inmates were then hosed down to wash away the food, vomit, feces, etc. into the drains. There were other similarly shocking descriptions of the dehumanization and physical and mental cruelty and neglect of these people, many of whom were not even actually below normal in intelligence, just hampered in some way such as speech impediments, hearing or vision deficits, dyslexia, etc., or subject to ills such as epilepsy etc. But this should NEVER be forgotten: Something that people simply don't, and perhaps can't believe, because of the hard wiring of the human brain, is that absolutely ANYthing that one can possibly imagine the most horrible person on earth could think of doing to another human being.. is being done right now, in institutions such as this, in jails or prisons, or churches, or any place else where people are placed in charge of others. It is being done also in families, in homes that appear nice on the outside, by people who are upstanding, respected members of the community, including your next-door neighbors.....

Absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking that these children were living in these conditions These administrators and those who treated these children this way should have been punished to the fullest extent of the law. How can anyone be so cruel and inhumane? I'm glad they were finally exposed and shut down

Very good and interesting

So sad 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Improper funding turned these places into warehouses of horror. Moral Treatment Dr. Thomas Storey Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix pioneered a century prior worked.

This happens in Graylands they fors drugs Western Australia

Government covered up , SRA been happening a long long time 😢😮

These institutions been around a long time , disabled and people against the government installed under a "corporation" 😢😮

What change?? What outpatient?? BS the fix is in. The amount of tax we pay these people should easily be cared for through state land and incentives for people to work there but that won’t happen because if it did how could Politicians steal most of there funding???

Thank you, Mr. Carabello, Mr. Rivera and Mr. Kennedy for your service to our people. Good friends for fifty.

This is so heartbreaking. My mother in law who worked for The State for 30 yrs told me about WillowBrook. She worked for BDC (Broome Developmental Center) as an LPN. When they got rid of the center they moved all the "clients" to houses as groups. She worked in one of those state houses and took care of a man named Tom, for many years. Tom is the last living patient in our county from WillowBrook. Tom has no family,and was left at WillowBrook as a child. Sadly my mil passed away, and Tom really was left confused and thought she left him too. The first time they took him on an outting past her house, he asked to come inside because that's what my mil used to do, She was all he had. Tom is still alive, and has been a ward of the state for 80+yrs. 😢 Tom is an amazing, sweet hearted, funny loving person. He loves music and dancing, going on adventures, he loves the dollar tree, and concerts. My mil used to pick me up and we would take Tom to the movies. I will forever be grateful, that I was able to help my mil make a difference in his life. And I will continue to embrace Tom until my time is up. They are just like us! Human ! None of us are perfect. I can't get through this without crying for all of the victims. I pray that have all found peace & don't even remember living that life.

Children do not belong in institutions of any kind.

The parents of these children with physical and learning challenges threw away their children because they didn't want to raise them. If you don't visit and don't know how your child is doing, you are negligent and fully culpable.

I wish they touched more on the good side of things and some of the Closeness and warmth Willowbrook DID have, and the goodness of institutions. But no. Now we have small foster homes, workers with low pay no unions and no pensions, and secret places of abuse and filth much the same as all the bad things shown at Geraldo's exposè report. As a highly educated kin folk in the field, i believe institutionalization, electroconvulsive therapy, and the transorbital lobotomy should be brought back to lessen the suffering amongst ethically minded individuals 😊

I learned my nursary rymes becasuse they were painted on walls of the vistors area and the wards, My sister was a resident and we would visit weekly or as often as we could, Every Person who is in charge of or sits on IEP meetings should have to watch this and the orginal story.

Ellen marie wiseman sayesinde yazdığı kitabı okuyarak ( kayıp ruhlar durağı ) böyle bir yerin varlığını bile bilmiyordum. İyi ki alıp okumuşum. Okurken bile kanım dondu yaşanılan onca şeyler iğrenç ve mide bulandırıcıydı. Şimdi KZbin dan araştırdım ve bu belgeseli gördüm iyice kötü oldum çok zor hayat yaşamışlar çok üzüldüm ve gerçekten çok yazık... Kapatılmasına çok sevdim. Umarım böyle bir şey olmaz Ama şuan da Filistin'de yaşayan bebek ve çocuklarının ölümüyle eş değer tutulmayacak düzeyde Allah onlarında yardımcısı olsun. Her şeyi bilip görmek duymak da pek bir işe yaramıyor gibi Zamanında orda çalışanların bir şey yapmadığı gibi şuan da da Filistinde onca bebek ve çocukların ölmesiyle hiç bir ülke dur diyememesi gibi bir şey... Gerçekten iğrenç bir toplumun içindeyiz. Ne merhamet ne de vicdan kalmış. Yazık gerçekten.

I read The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman based on this Institution. Though fiction you felt the nightmare of this place

To an extent, these places need to be brought back for the mentally disabled who can not be integrated in to society for whatever reason, those who can not even perform the most basic life skills.

Willowbrook is now fully religious jewish neighborhood But modern orthodox & litvish that live there I would give a name SODOM & AMMORA Nice on outside Evil talkers and doers on inside INSIDIOUS Enjou trip there, see 4 yourselves

We can send billions to fight a war in Ukraine. Yet many of those considered developmentally disability today are the homeless we see on the streets this very day. Due to a lack of resources, funding, and legislative action or want to care for these people. I work ata state institution for the developmentally delayed population. Each patient has a guardian. Either be a parent, relative, or sometimes state appointed. The social security payments given for the patients care is given directly to the guardians. They are only required by law to give the patient $30 a month and keep the rest. A few hundred a month pocketed by the guardian paid for by tax payers, and they don't bother to visit. Many times, they deny the patient being placed in a group home situation where they could live a more normal independent life & make decisions for themselves.

There is still work to be done. I work at a state run mental Healthcare facility as a psych nurse. Many times, I have been physically abused by patients and told that it is the cost of working there. We are constantly short staffed and mandated constantly to work double shifts. You can't make plans in your personal life due to the mandation policies. We are overworked. The patients receive good care. There needs to be more advocacy for workers in these state run institutions to make people aware of a career in this field, and there are good paying jobs available at these facilities.

I grew up on Staten Island. This is a dark, horrifying time.

What a horrible place for these people

Again Minnesota now !

In the Midwest this still happens!

Your work is innovative and brilliant! BRAVO!!!!!

The advocacy to shut down the school, (as is generally the case with shutting down mental institutions), was idiotic. The property was perfectly useable and suitable for its original purpose, or at least some purpose. But people are stupid enough to think the issue was with asylums as such, not with how they were managed. The result is generations of mentally unwell people who, dysfunctional as they are, are often just thrown into prisons along with general populations, which is obviously inappropriate. But I guess that fixed the optics of the original problem, which is all society really cares about.

The strongest case for anti natalism ever known.

I think I’ve heard of children and adults being kept in the family basement, or in the attic of the home. What’s the answer?? Others live on the streets, don’t they? What should happen? 26:48 26:48

Was that the guy from the Lobotomy clan?

The same corruption is going on at YAI.They got infiltrated by greedy democrat communists who pushed out good nurses during Covid.BLM communists infiltrated too.They pushed out good nurses. The problem with mental health care is democrat communists pushing political agendas causing negligence and inadequate patient care.

My mom gave her life for the mentally challenged...they are wonderful ....so easily amused... making them smile is all that counts

Democrat MAYOR BEAME OVERSAW THIS ABUSE... TYPICAL DEMOCRAT

Today the momey scam is transing kids via tax dollars by the DEMOCRATS.. sick DEMONRATS

Their funding was massive PROFITS, per case....ALL STOLEN BY DEMOCRATS IN CHARGE...

Democrats run NYC... DISGUSTING

Surely you knew that your child was being abused if you sent them there? If YOU don't love them, then who will?