Description: Ranch in West Barnstable employs at-risk youth, teaching them how to care for horses and clean stables. Also provides recreational therapy for special needs children.
Description: State-owned house in Brookline, intended as group home home for mentally ill people, is vacant for lack of funds to run program. Gerry Morrissey.
Description: Housing for mentally ill people falls far short of goal. Neighborhood opposition delays siting of community residences for discharged patients. Philip Johnston, Edward Murphy.
Description: Shelter operators sue Mental Health Department to take responsibility for mentally ill homeless people. Ray Flynn, Richard Ring, Henry Tomes. Homeless people lie near heat vent outside BPL, line up for food.