Community Support Systems of Haitian Immigrants
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Garrison, Vivian, 1933-2013
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content: Vivian E. Garrison papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.8 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1973-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-19, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 4 is arranged into 3 sub-series: (4.1) Research data, field notes, and analysis, circa 1973-1987, undated; (4.2) Sound recordings, 1983-1986; (4.3) Administrative files, 1980-1988.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 4 consists of material documenting Garrison's research into the community health practices of the Haitian population of the greater New York City area (predominantly New York City and Newark, New Jersey) with the College/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (C/UMDNJ) and Columbia University (CU). The series includes administrative files, case vignettes, correspondence, data and tabulations, field notes, financial documents, forms, grant applications, linguistic glossaries, presentations and workshop notes, publications, research policies and protocols, surveys, and working papers.

Garrison worked as the Principal Director administering the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant, "Community Support Systems of Haitian Immigrants" (referred to throughout her records variously as "Haitian grant," "Haitian project," and "CSSHI"). The grant was first awarded to CMDNJ under Garrison's oversight of the Inner-City Support Systems Project. The project director of the grant at UMDNJ was Linda Gutwirth, and many of the materials in this series were created or compiled by her. The CSSHI grant was transferred to Columbia University in 1984. Of note in this series are the case study vignettes, in both draft and final forms, that discuss the experience of various patients and healers as well as Haitian Vodou (Vodon) practices.

Related material can be found in Series 3: Inner-City Support Systems Project. Additional material related to publications made from CSSHI-gathered data can be found in Series 5: Publications, manuscripts, and associated research files.