State Name of Restoration Committee Organizations involved Funding sources Alabama Bryce Hospital Historic Preservation Committee Alabama Department of Mental Health Committee is selling inscribed memorial bricks; hoping to raise $100,000 California State wide: California Memorial Project; California Mental Health Advocacy Conference Member of state senate/assembly began project; Unit at Protection & Advocacy, Inc., the California Network of Mental Health Clients, and Capital People First and other local “people first” chapters Not clear Connecticut Connecticut Valley Hospital (still in use, CEO is heading up project to restore cemeteries) Not clear Georgia Georgia Consumer Council; Larry Fricks, Dir., Office of Consumer Relations, Div. of MH/MR/SA Royalties from 2008 reprinting of Peter Cranford’s 1953 book about Milledgeville; state provided initial funds to restore and spruce up cemetery, has committed funds for “perpetual upkeep” in the future; other fundraising projects Idaho Asst. Hosp. Administrator; and Admissions Dir. SHS Not clear – hospital budget? Illinois Mental Health Care Historic Preservation Society Group begun by a former employee of the hospital Not Indiana Local genealogist, spokesperson from Department of Metropolitan Development Buchanan group* offered $1500 to pay for new registry. Kentucky Eastern State Hospital Cemetery Club, or Eastern State Hospital Bluegrass Community Technical College, Kentucky Heritage Council, Latitude Artist Finance & Administration Cabinet, Division of Engineering and Contract Administration
Cemetery Preservation Project Community (disabled art group), state, Kentucky Archeology Survey Maine Cemetery Project Former patient, state agency (DHHS), private agency (AMISTAD) Campaign to raise $50,000 to design & install memorial. $10,000 donation from Elsie & William Viles Foundation (local charitable foundation). Massachusetts Danvers State Memorial Committee (Pat Deegan), Medfield State Hospital Cemetery Restoration Committee, Westborough State Hospital Cemetery Project Former patients, MH activist Pat Deegan & her National Empowerment Center, DMH personnel Deegan’s org. got a of $58,000 from Center for Mental Health Services for a study of the history of consumer/survivors in the mental health system. Medfield received some “appropriated monies” from an unspecified source. Westborough reported funds were available after closure of hospital. Minnesota "Remembering with Dignity" Project, Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center Auxiliary, Rochester State Hospital Cemetery Recognition Group Dakota County Historical Society, NAMI of SW Minnesota, State of Minnesota, former employees, local Representative, “Advocating Change Together” – a St. Paul nonprofit $950,000 in state funds (through 2008) for Remembering with Dignity project and to State Historical Society Nebraska Adams County Historical Society, Nebraska DHHS, Not clear Nevada Friends of Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services Cemetery Nevada Mental Health & Development Services Not clear, although city and state have cooperated with restoring cemetery from previous incarnation as a children’s playground New Jersey President of State Senate (Richard Codey), Historian of Evergreen Cemetery (before his death) Attempts to get NJ government to pay for work; and/or allow inmates from Department of Corrections to help clean up.
New York Willard Cemetery Memorial Project People Inc., local politician who is on board for Rockland Psy. Ctr. As well as the RPC’s Director of Clinical Services, NAMI-FAMILY 2010, State of NY gave $10,000 for RPC cemetery cleanup Carolina Burley Mitchell, former chief justice of N.C. Supreme Court Donations of headstones from a local headstone company; donations and volunteers from public. Ohio Friends of Athens Asylum Cemeteries, and Toledo State Hospital Cemetery Reclamation Project/Committee Curator of manuscripts at Ohio University old records are kept); NAMI Fundraising by Friends of Athens Asylum Cemeteries to raise money for headstones Oklahoma No name Head of OK DMHSAS Not clear Oregon No name Oregon Senate President, spokeswoman for OSH "The memorial, which could cost up to $500,000, is currently funded by the state's Percent for Art in Public Places program. The law requires 1 percent of direct construction funds of new and renovated state buildings with construction budgets of $100,000 or more to go toward acquiring works of art." Pennsylvania 4 cemeteries, only one has name for committee, WSH Cemetery Restoration Committee For Warren State Hosp., administrators from the hospital. For WSH, donations from volunteers, the public, and the hospital’s operating fund. South Carolina Committee to Preserve and Restore Historic Cemeteries, at the Mental Health Association Administrators at Office of Client Affairs, Mental Health Association Not South Dakota No name. American Indian activists. Not clear. No name Director of maintenance at hospital Not clear. Artist offered to donate statue, another iron