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The Business Advisory Council was made up of business leaders called on to advise MHANYS on issues related to employment of persons who have experienced mental illness, to be a communication link between the private sector and mental health professionals, and to make businesses aware of the valuable human resources available through mental health rehabilitation agencies. This series includes mission statements, program and proposal documents, correspondence, and information on awards dinners sponsored by the council.

This subseries contains political cartoons and comic strips pertaining to environmental issues that interested CEC. Most of these materials are copyrighted works.

This series includes correspondence, conference documents, program proposals, and program documents regarding managed health care programs for children; family preservation programs; juvenile justice programs; educating students, especially in grade school, about the nature of mental illness; and support for parents with mentally illnesses or children with mental illness.

This subseries contains the unpublished writings of van den Haag. Approximately half are dated. The dated writings are arranged chronologically within the series while undated writings are arranged alphabetically by title with untitled writings at the end arranged alphabetically by subject. The writings within this subseries were identified as unpublished either because of Van den Haag's title on the folder or because they contained no identifying publication information.

The prose writings are arranged chronologically and consist of short prose pieces in German and in English, and the later prose writings written almost entirely in English. These include Bates' loosely autobiographical observations, the first series collectively entitled "Pebbles" and the later series entitled "Question Marks". Also included in this section are the outlines of Bates' "Biotechnics" with notes for a "Biosophic Seminar", accompanied by numerous note slips divided into the various categories of biosophy, as defined by Bates.

This subseries includes contract information, presentations, proposals and other documents regarding MHANYS programs for empowerment of consumers and dialogue between consumers and providers of mental health services in New York State.