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1949–2010 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY — THE DESIGNATED CENTRE FOR THIS COUNTY, OSCEOLA INCLUDED)
Madison Center — founded 1949, a nonprofit providing comprehensive mental-health and substance-abuse services — was this county's community mental health centre: its own designation-era description gives its catchment as St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Marshall and Porter counties, staffed by board-certified psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, therapists and nurses, seated at 701 N. Niles Avenue, South Bend. Its founding sits inside the statewide build the Indiana Council's history dates: after the federal Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, Indiana required a minimum of 30 CMHCs to cover the state's population; the first, Midtown in Indianapolis, opened in 1969, twenty-nine more followed over the next decade and a half, and Indiana's governing CMHC statute passed in 1971 (originally IC 16-16-1). Madison Center predates that frame as an organisation (1949) and worked inside it as the designated centre — both facts print, neither stretched: 1949 is the founding the centre's own record gives; the designation system it served under is the 1963/1971 frame.
First director — named gap in part. No founding director of Madison Center was named in any open source reached; the officers the open record does name belong to its end (art-57-7): Ken Davis, interim chief executive officer in September 2010, and Dan Peck, executive director of special projects in 2010. Settler for the founding body and first director at full strength: Madison Center's corporate and early annual records and the South Bend Tribune file at the St. Joseph County Public Library. Madison Center also stands inside this section twice more on the public record: it ran the TeenScreen examinations at Penn High School that produced the consent case of art-57-10, and from 1992 it held the formal working relationship with Portage Manor (art-57-5). Osceola's share of the centre is the township share, stated plainly: Osceola residents were in its catchment, were screened by its staff in their own school corporation, and were referred through it — the centre was never seated in Osceola, and its founding facts are South Bend facts at boundary size.
Sources: Madison Center's own designation-era description (founded 1949; five-county catchment; 701 N. Niles Ave.) carried in the 7 Sept. 2010 Oaklawn/Madison announcement (PR Newswire); Indiana Council of Community Mental Health Centers, Brief History of CMHCs in Indiana (1963 Act; Midtown 1969; 1971 statute); St. Joseph County Home timeline (1992 Madison relationship).