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Progress Foundation was started in 1969
when the de-institutionalization movement took people
out of State psychiatric hospitals and sent them into
the community. The local community treatment systems had
yet to develop the programs and supports necessary to
serve individuals with mental illness, and many people
were at risk for re-institutionalization. In 1969 Steve
Fields incorporated Progress Foundation and became its
first Executive Director, the position he holds today.
Over the next three decades Progress Foundation expanded
its array of programs and opened more than a dozen new
programs in San Francisco, Napa and Sonoma Counties.
Progress Foundation now provides services to a culturally
and diagnostically diverse population of over 1400 individuals
each year, with specialized programs for seniors, Spanish-speakers,
mothers reunifying with their children, Transitional
Age Youth, and individuals transitioning out of long-term
institutional confinement. Progress Foundation currently
operates over 15 programs in 3 California counties,
and has provided training and consultation to other
mental health agencies across the country and around
the world that hope to provide more effective treatment
opportunities for their clients.
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