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This subseries contains files on audits conducted at Willowbrook (later renamed Staten Island Developmental Center). Included are audits of buildings at Willowbrook managed by United Cerebral Palsy. Files are arranged chronologically by audit date, then alphabetically. Audits found in this series include Willowbrook Core Audits I-IV (1976-1977), the Willowbrook Joint Audit of 1977, the Willowbrook Audits of July 1977 and February 1979, the United Cerebral Palsy Audits of November 1977 and November 1979, and the Educational Reinstatement Audits of February and April 1977.

The terms of the Willowbrook Consent Decree applied to all people who were residents of Willowbrook on March 17, 1972 (usually referred to as the "Willowbrook Class of 1972"). By the time the Consent Decree was issued, many class members had been transferred to other state-run residential facilities. The Review Panel therefore had the authority - and the responsibility - to ensure that other facilities housing former Willowbrook residents were in compliance with the terms of the Consent Decree. The Panel monitored the compliance of other facilities through a series of Related Facilities Audits.

In February 1979 and February 1980, the Review Panel conducted staffing audits of Willowbrook and related facilities to determine if the staff-to-resident ratios required by the Consent Decree were being maintained. For a period of one week, data on staff members signed in for each shift was collected. Ratios of both direct care and supervisory staff were calculated. This series contains data collected from Willowbrook and several related facilities, rough drafts of a report, final compliance reports, and correspondence related to the staffing audits.

This series consists of files on audits conducted at psychiatric centers where former Willowbrook residents were receiving care. The purpose of the audit was to determine whether the residents' needs for educational and recreational programs were being met according to the terms of the Consent Decree.

The Review Panel also conducted operational audits of New York State's mental retardation services. This subseries consists of data, draft reports, recommendations, and responses to operational audits.

The bulk of this series consists of self-surveys completed by Willowbrook related facilities as part of the audit process. Also included are summary reports of an Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) survey completed in each of the five boroughs of New York.

This subseries contains files on the general administration of the audit process. The bulk of the series concerns the development of the standardized audit instrument used to measure compliance at Willowbrook and other state facilities. Also included are instructions for auditors, memoranda, files on audit recommendations, and correspondence with the New York Department of Mental Health's Technical Assistance Unit regarding audits conducted jointly with the Review Panel.

This subseries is comprised mostly of 90 day progress reports produced by Willowbrook authorities for the Review Panel. The reports contain unit demographic descriptions, compliance inventories, compliance plans, progress narratives, and assurance statements. Also included in this subseries are files from the initial Willowbrook compliance survey of 1975, operational plans for Willowbrook Developmental center, and files related to the Staten Island Audit Compliance Task Force. At the end of the subseries are several folders containing reports on the status of Willowbrook non-residential clients.

This subseries contains files on compliance at state developmental centers other than Willowbrook. Most of the files are operational plans for individual facilities, which describe how building staff will implement Consent Decree requirements. Audit Compliance Task Force files and Related Facilities Compliance Reports are also found in this subseries.

The Metropolitan Placement Unit was a New York State agency created to develop community residences for Willowbrook class members. This subseries consists of the Willowbrook Review Panel's files related to the MPU. It includes reports on MPU activities, correspondence from MPU director Barbara Blum, reports on the development of community residences, and other related files.