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AUDIT ROW #297 · THE FOUNDING AND THE CATCHMENT, FROM THE SYSTEM'S OWN HISTORY
The community mental health centre for this county was founded in 1949, before there was a federal community-mental-health act to fund one. Madison Center was organized in 1949 as a nonprofit serving a five-county catchment — St. Its counterpart and eventual successor, Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, was founded in 1962 inside the Mennonite mental-health system — first in a temporary Elkhart location from July 1962, opening its doors on February 11, 1963 — and became Elkhart County's designated centre in 1973 before it ever touched St. Joseph County. Madison's founding body and first director do not stand in the records reached from this seat and are carried as the item's named residue (settler: the centre's own corporate record and the state designation files), printed open rather than filled from the successor's histories, which remember the founding they displaced least well. The item closes mixed: the founding dated and the catchment mapped; the founders open under their settler.
Principal sources: Madison Center/Oaklawn joint release, September 7, 2010 (Madison's 1949 founding and five-county catchment); Oaklawn institutional history (founded 1962; doors February 11, 1963; Elkhart CMHC 1973); settler named for the residue — Madison Center corporate record and Indiana DMHA designation files.