Inner-City Support System Project
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Garrison, Vivian, 1933-2013
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content: Vivian E. Garrison papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30.12 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1968-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-19, Series 3
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 3 is arranged into 8 sub-series. The first half (sub-series 3.1 to 3.4) contains research material and clinical files. The second half (subseries 3.5 to 3.8) contains materials related to the administration, implementation, and dissemination of the ICSS project. The sub-series are as follows:

(3.1) Research files, data, and instruments, circa 1968-1984, undated; 
(3.2) Case files of clinical patients, 1978-1984; 
(3.3) Sound recordings of clinical interviews, consultations, and treatments, 1975-1988; 
(3.4) Video recordings of clinical interviews, consultations, and treatments, circa 196074-1983; 
(3.5) Administrative files, circa 1972-1991; 
(3.6) Working papers and publications, circa 1975-1989, 2006; 
(3.7) Sound recordings of administrative and professional material, 1972-1984, 1997
(3.8) Video recordings of presentations, demonstrations, and interviews, circa 1970-1990.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3 contains material documenting Garrison's research into the community health practices of low-income and minority communities of the greater New York City area (predominantly Newark, New Jersey), as well as her implementation of culturally sensitive clinical practice and health care training with the College/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (C/UMDNJ). This series includes case files and clinical interviews; clinical evaluation instruments, including interview and observation schedules; data cards; tables and tabulations; sound and video recordings of clinical interviews with patients and healers; correspondence; conference notes; drafts and publications; grant applications; reports; photographic slide presentations; sound and video recordings of workshops, presentations, and staff meetings; workshop scripts and handouts; training manuals; and notes.

Garrison served as the Principal Investigator of the U.S. Public Health Grant "Inner-City Support Systems" (ICSS) at UMDNJ. Much of the material in this series is administrative, documenting the implementation of research done at ICSS (through workshops, presentations, and publications) and the administration of the grant (through applications, reports, and financial documents).

Of note in the series are materials related to "Bumi" (in sub-series (3.5)). These materials document a particular training module created by ICSS staff surrounding the implementation of culturally-sensitive clinical healing practices. Also of note is sub-series (3.6) Working papers and publications, circa 1975-1989, 2006. This sub-series documents both internal reports and external publications created by ICSS staff. It includes correspondence, drafts, and proofs ("slugs") of a series of ICSS-specific papers published in the journal Psychiatric Annals. This sub-series also contains detailed definitions of "support systems" and the ICSS project.

Material in this series also documents the Resource Center for Multicultural Care and Prevention (RCMCP) at UMDNJ - an offshoot of the ICSS program. The series also contains material related to the development and implementation of the workshop "Culturally Sensitive Case Management Training" (CSCMT), which Garrison administered while at UMDNJ, and to the Community Support Systems Assessment (CSSA) manual developed by Garrison and ICSS staff.

Related material can be found in Series 4: Community Support Systems of Haitian Immigrants (CSSHI), which grant was connected to the ICSS project and was administered by Garrison during her time at UMDNJ. Additional material related to publications made from ICSS-gathered data can be found in Series 5: Publications, manuscripts, and associated research files.