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1949–2010 · South Bend — the county's community mental health centre
Madison Center was founded in 1949 — the date stands in the organisation's own boilerplate, printed in its final designation release — as a nonprofit provider in South Bend, and it grew into the institution the county's modern system was built around: "Indiana's largest community mental health agency," as the University of Notre Dame called it in 2010. Its seat was the multi-building main campus on North Niles Avenue, where by 2005 the National Labor Relations Board's record shows it operating Madison Hospital and Riverside Hospital for inpatient care and the Madison Center for Children at 701 North Niles Avenue, with three group homes and the Juvenile Justice Center in South Bend and eight regional campuses besides — fifteen facilities in all, in Michigan City, Kingsford Heights, Valparaiso, Portage and Fort Wayne as well as South Bend. Its catchment, as printed at the end, ran to five counties: St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Marshall and Porter. Within St. Joseph County it held the state's community-mental-health designation — the designated CMHC, the body the state charged with the county's community-based duties, the commitment system's community end, and the provider woven through this section's other articles: it ran the TeenScreen programme in the county's schools, kept case managers and psychiatrists inside Portage Manor from 1992, and ran a smaller sister residence of its own, Madison Manor. Its growth is on the record through one career: when Marsha Brook joined in 1978 the centre had 75 employees; by her retirement in December 2005 — she had become associate director and then, in 1986, executive director — it had more than 1,200. Jack Robinson was president and CEO in 2005; Ken Davis was interim chief executive at the end, in 2010.
Two founding facts the row asks for are a named gap of this section, stated plainly: the founding body of 1949 — the citizens, agency or board that incorporated Madison Center — and the centre's first director are not named in any open source reached. The searches run were the organisation's own releases and institutional records (which give 1949 without a founder), the NLRB's 2005 case record (officers as of 2005 only), the Notre Dame and IU South Bend institutional files (which pick the story up in 1978), and the Tribune file as indexed online. The settling sources are named: Madison Center's 1949 articles of incorporation and first minute books (Indiana Secretary of State, Business Entity records, and the corporation's own surviving files), and the South Bend Public Library Local History collection's Madison Center file with the Tribune's 1949 morgue. What is recorded, and printed above, is the earliest director the open record names: Marsha Brook, executive director 1986 to December 2005.
Sources: Madison Center / Oaklawn joint release, September 7, 2010 (founded 1949; the five-county catchment); National Labor Relations Board, Madison Center, Inc., Case 25-RC-10299 (2005 — the campus, hospitals, children's centre, fifteen facilities, eight regional campuses, the 2005 officers); News-Medical / Notre Dame, August 12, 2010 ("Indiana's largest community mental health agency"); IU South Bend commencement programme, May 9, 2006 (the Marsha Brook biography: 75 employees in 1978, more than 1,200 by 2005, executive director 1986, retired December 2005).