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Shapiro Developmental Center, formerly Kankakee State Hospital, is a state-run facility for the developmentally disabled in Kankakee, Illinois. It opened in 1879 as a mental hospital and became a center for the developmentally disabled in 1974.
Francine Shapiro (1948-2019) was an American psychologist who invented and developed eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a form of psychotherapy for trauma. She wrote several books and articles on EMDR and received many awards for her contributions to trauma psychology.
The plaintiff was a developmentally disabled man who had been sexually assaulted in 2017 at the Shapiro Developmental Center in Kankakee, Illinois. The assailant, Reverend Richard Jacklin, was arrested for the assault. The lawsuit charged the diocese and Conlon with improper vetting of Jacklin and negligent supervision of him.
Shapiro continued to work as an attorney; his death was discovered when he failed to appear in court for a client and police were sent to his home in Kankakee to investigate. He is buried in Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois. The state renamed the Kankakee Mental Health Center in his honor.
New investigation shows problems like those at Choate center in Anna are common throughout the statewide system. Problems with abuse, neglect and cover-ups extend to other developmental centers in ...
Austen Riggs Center is a psychiatric treatment facility in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, founded by Austen Fox Riggs in 1913. It is known for its open psychiatric care, psychosomatic medicine, and therapeutic community approach.
Shapiro signed the bipartisan liquor legislation expanding the sale of canned drinks up to 12.5 percent ABV into law earlier this year. It extends to restaurants, hotels and other outlets that may ...
A community grapples with the fallout of a family gone bad, a school shooter who took four lives and a piece of Winder, Georgia, too.