I will suggest this site! Austin State School - Farm Colony Travis State School was a living center that was operated as a farm colony and educational facility becoming eventually a work facility for the mentally retarded citizens of Texas operating from to The institution taught the mentally retarded how to be self-sufficient. In , Texas Governor Miriam A.
Ferguson proposed an idea to the Texas Board of Control along with Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation to create a farm colony, work facility, and educational facility for the mentally retarded citizens of Texas. The Texas Government had purchased acres of land from Greg Wilson and six other residents in the year of The farm colony started as a true farm community in Texas Government along Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation had felt a need to place mentally retarded citizens in a separate home away from the rest of society.
This taught the mentally retarded how to be self-sufficient. Austin State School - Farm Colony was intended to provide a home for mentally retarded male patients who could no longer further benefit from training at the Austin State School and who were able to do such farm work such as gardening, farming, dairying, mowing, and such related tasks.
The first students were transferred from the Austin State School to the farm colony in October which at the time had only one building. However, there were female students even in despite the original intentions of the institutions for males only. Children came later. However on January 14, , the Texas Legislature and Texas Government were considering closing down the farm colony due to the fact that the farm colony was a total failure as the farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions.
However the farm colony remained. By then, the farm colony only admitted male patients only from other state mental health institutions.
By , the farm colony had six buildings with offices. The farm colony was always Austin State School despite was others say. Farming operations at the facility slowly ceased in January due to the fact that the farm colony was a total failure. The farm colony could not produce enough to maintain for the patients at the institutions. The farming operations did not cease due to mental health care reforms in the 's due to popular belief.
Farming operations ceased due to lack of attention and criminal negligence. Later included was a swimming pool, cannery, storerooms, more offices, and a sewing room. In the year of , Travis State School received a grant from the Hospital Improvement Project which made it possible for the use of a unit system of treatment. Female students were first admitted in for the first time since the institution gradually opened in By , the farm colony discontinued farming operations due to lack of attention and mental health care reforms.
Farming operations at the facility ceased for good due to lack of enrollment, lack of maintenance, criminal negligence, and bad results. All what was left in its place was the institution.
The Texas Government and TX MHMR had began changing its focus from institutionalization to integrated placement in local communities as this trend was becoming nationwide in the United States in the s. This was a result from efforts in deinstitutionalization. By then, state officials began following this trend. After the year of due to lack of enrollment and federal funding, Travis State School relied on the Manor Independent School District to provide academic instruction through its "mainstreaming" program instead.
Texas has always historically been behind most US states to serve people with mental retardation within their own communities along with Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Illinois. Effects of deinstitutionalization became statewide. Statistics in newspapers, reports, and books showed otherwise. In , Travis State School had patients and 1, employees with a total of 86 buildings at its acre property.
In , only patients remained. They were unharmed. In , the State of Texas and City of Austin proposed a 1, inmate facility for a new state jail to alleviate crowding with the population in state jails. Due to an abuse case at Travis State School along with lawsuits such as Lelsz vs. Kavanagh and Ruiz vs. The lawsuit was both statewide and federal, thus resulting in the federal lawsuit of Lelsz vs.
I just came across a Census record that has been truly confusing There was a similarly named "mental institution" called Austin State Hospital that came under the control of Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools in , but I don't think that was the same thing. It was heartbreaking. But this Census had "Austin State School", at the top of the page, and every person listed there was called an " Inmate" apparently inmate technically means people living in their own room, but with a shared outer door.
The lady I was looking for was only 8 years old, and there were men and women on the same page. The oldest was 50, there were several children and people in their 20s. Sorry for the doing my thinking while commenting, I think these were separate places.
But neither was ideal. There is one thing that is encouraging - people are no longer warehoused or forced to sit around doing absolutely nothing. Thank you so much, this was very helpful. Those are two separate institutions. The inmates at Austin State School - Farm Colony were not forced to sit around doing absolutely nothing as inmates at Austin State Hospital "had been". I was glad to have helped, Amy Lynn. The institution taught the mentally retarded how to be self-sufficient.
It was due to reforms in healthcare along with mental health that the name of this institution was changed. The farming operations did not cease due to mental health care reforms in the 's due to popular belief as many believed.
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