LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS AND
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION YEAR As a contribution to International Co-
operation Year, members of Local Associations entertained Mrs. Miriam Karlins, who is the Director for Public Information in the Mental Health Education and
Voluntary Services Department of Public Welfare, Minnesota, U.S.A., at a meeting at which she spoke on "The Volunteer's
Contribution to Mental Health Programmes". Mrs. Karlins emphasised that the problems and goals of volunteers in mental health were the same in both countries and reviewed the progress made by volunteer services in the U.S.A. since 1946. Eventually, what had commenced as a one-way stream of volunteers coming into the hospital emerged as a two-way stream where volunteers were enabled to bring the patients out into the community. Furthermore not only was there a Volunteer Services Co-ordinator in every hospital of the State but several counties now had co-ordinators in the community. Mrs. Karlins listed as needs which had to be met before a person achieved maxi260
^MpW88588S?pH^ Mrs. Mrs. Karlins
addressing the meeting
mum growth: physical needs, safety and security, and a feeling that somebody
cared. In the educational field she was enthusiastic about work done by young
people in caring for geriatric patients and two-day bus tours of all the mental hospitals and organisations in the State by the Governor and leading citizens. They had also completely revised and reabout the
written the relevant textbooks available to children in the schools.
Symbolic of what they were trying to achieve was the comment of one patient: "When I came here I could fly but they clipped make ^ the reception
wings. Now they fly again."
my
me
are
trying
to
M. Edwardes-Evans
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION YEAR As a contribution to International Co-
operation Year, members of Local Associations entertained Mrs. Miriam Karlins, who is the Director for Public Information in the Mental Health Education and
Voluntary Services Department of Public Welfare, Minnesota, U.S.A., at a meeting at which she spoke on "The Volunteer's
Contribution to Mental Health Programmes". Mrs. Karlins emphasised that the problems and goals of volunteers in mental health were the same in both countries and reviewed the progress made by volunteer services in the U.S.A. since 1946. Eventually, what had commenced as a one-way stream of volunteers coming into the hospital emerged as a two-way stream where volunteers were enabled to bring the patients out into the community. Furthermore not only was there a Volunteer Services Co-ordinator in every hospital of the State but several counties now had co-ordinators in the community. Mrs. Karlins listed as needs which had to be met before a person achieved maxi260
^MpW88588S?pH^ Mrs. Mrs. Karlins
addressing the meeting
mum growth: physical needs, safety and security, and a feeling that somebody
cared. In the educational field she was enthusiastic about work done by young
people in caring for geriatric patients and two-day bus tours of all the mental hospitals and organisations in the State by the Governor and leading citizens. They had also completely revised and reabout the
written the relevant textbooks available to children in the schools.
Symbolic of what they were trying to achieve was the comment of one patient: "When I came here I could fly but they clipped make ^ the reception
wings. Now they fly again."
my
me
are
trying
to
M. Edwardes-Evans
