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The Recipient Empowerment subseries includes documents related to a MHANYS program about empowering recipients of mental health services. Included is Empowerment, the newsletter of the MHANYS Recipient Empowerment Program, and related documents.

The Rural Health subseries includes documents related to MHANYS programs on rural mental health issues and to the Rural Council, a New York State Department of Health council on rural health issues.

Schaefer's correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by subject. They include letters sent and received by Schaefer as well as some to and from Irving Langmuir. Schaefer also retained letters that were to and from others at General Electric but carbon copied to him. While most of Schaefer's letters came to the archives grouped in large, general batches, some were retained separate from the larger groups. The archivist kept that arrangement, which is why certain letters are foldered individually or in very small groups while the majority of this subseries is simply categorized as "general".

The Supported Education subseries includes documents related to the reintegration into post-secondary education of young adults with serious mental problems, prepared by Four Winds Center, Saratoga Springs, New York.

The Sexual Abuse subseries inclues documents related to a proposal by MHANYS in response to a request for proposals (RFP) from the New York State Department of Health for a project on sexual assault and trauma issues and establishment of a rape crisis center and documents related to the Sexual Assault/Mental Health Project of MHANYS and the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc.; documents concerned with other MHANYS activities related to sexual abuse; the Task Force Networker, a newsletter of the Sexual Assault/Mental Health Project of MHANYS and the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc.; and the proceedings of a forum on sexual abuse survivors held at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York.

This subseries contains material concerning Michelle Crone's production company, Elword Productions, which focused on creating events and performances in the Capital Region that would appeal to women and the LGBT community. This includes many files of performers that include biographies, correspondence, published reviews, riders, and technical specifications. Performers were musical groups, comedians, theater performers, and others that generally focused on feminist or lesbian issues. The subseries consists primarily of promotional material, and administrative records for the company are scarce. There is a substantial amount of material from comedian and actress Lea Delaria, whom Crone worked with on numerous occasions.