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The Moose Lake program was primarily for

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people with mental health issues.

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There was a

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relatively small population

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there of people with

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developmental disabilities. It may have been

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comparable in size to some of the other

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institutions, but I think

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it really actually had a

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smaller population of

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people with adult mental

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disabilities. And it was a very intriguing

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problem because what we really had to deal

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with was not the issues with people with

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developmental disabilities,

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but how do you construct

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a system of community mental health that,

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you know, throughout

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that region of the state

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that could take up the mission of what

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the RTC was doing. Basically

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at the same time,

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and I think one of the main problems in

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all three institutions, was that a lot

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of people at that point in time equated

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deinstitutionalization

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with privatization. And I

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think certainly, you know,

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the State workers that

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were at the institutions

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were very concerned in

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terms of losing their jobs.

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So, these were...

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the issues at Moose Lake were a little bit

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different than, say they were at Faribault,

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which I think served only

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people with developmental

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disabilities. But they were on a smaller

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scale, and in a way that was good.

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Because we approached those issues

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in Moose Lake, they were containable,

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they were a minor piece

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of the problem, so that

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when we subsequently

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went to start negotiating at Faribault, 

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we had some positive experience to build on.