Guide to the Joan I. Ablon Papers, 1968-75
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Guide to the Joan I. Ablon Papers, 1968-75
Collection number: MSS 84-17
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Joan I. Ablon Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1968-75
Collection number: MSS 84-17
Creator: Ablon, Joan I., 1934-
Extent: 2 cartons (46 folders)
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Received 8/13/84.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Joan I. Ablon Papers, MSS 84-17, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biography
Dr. Ablon was born in Dallas Texas October 21, 1934. She received her B.A. in
anthropology from the University of Texas in 1955, and an M.A. from the University of
Chicago three years later. She was an NIMH fellow, and received her PhD in anthropology,
also from Chicago, in 1963.
She was a research anthropologist in the School of Criminology at UC Berkeley from
1963-66, and worked for the New Mexico State Division of Mental Health 1966-67. In 1968
Dr. Ablon was appointed asst. professor of medical anthropology in the Dept of Psychiatry
at UCSF, with a concurrent position as Instructor in criminology in the Extension
Division, UC Berkeley, from 1965. In 1986 Dr. Ablon was appointed professor of the
Medical Anthropology Program, epidemiology and international health, and psychiatry at
UCSF. Her research interests include cultural values and mental health; family structure
in alcoholism; North American Indians; urban anthropology, urban ethnic and racial
minority groups; and action and applied anthropology, and she has published extensively
in these areas.
Dr. Ablon is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and also of the Society
of Applied Anthropology.
Scope and Content
The papers include correspondence, meeting minutes and related publications of the
Community Mental Health Training Program at LPPI, colloquia for community mental health
educators, reflecting Dr. Ablon's participation in this program. Also part of the
collections are materials on mental health programs throughout the city of San Francisco,
and outside the city.
Series I. LPPI Community Mental Health Training Program
Carton Ctn. 1, Folder 1
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 2
Community Mental Health (CMH) joint planning committee
Folder 3
CMH Program planning committee
Folder 4
CMH Training program, grant proposal
Folder 6
CMH Service, budget, 1969-70
Folder 7
CMH Training Program, 1967-68
Folder 8
CMH Training Program, 1968-69
Folder 9
CMH Training Program, 1968-73
Folder 10
CMH Training Program, 1975
Folder 11
Staff seminars, meetings: notes
Folder 15
Catchment area, research reports, 1972 (1)
Folder 16
Catchment area, research reports, 1972 (2)
Folder 17
Catchment area, research reports, 1972 (3)
Folder 18
Catchment area, Sunset OMI; CMH center minutes, reports
Folder 20
Hunters Point redevelopment
Folder 22
Western Addition: redevelopment
Folder 24
Children & Youth services, 1973
Folder 25
Neighborhood groups, 1972
Series II. CMHTP Related Activities
Carton Ctn. 2, Folder 26
Community Action Training Center project, 1965
Folder 27
InterUniversity Forum for Educators in Community Psychiatry, 1968
Folder 28
InterUniversity Forum for Educators in Community Psychiatry, 1970
Folder 29
InterUniversity Forum for Educators in Community Psychiatry, 1971
Folder 32
Advanced colloquium, 1972
Folder 33
San Francisco Unified School District: desegregation plan, 1971
Series III. Subject Files
Folder 35
Conference: Women and their health, 1975
Folder 39
Mental health centers, programs: elsewhere
Folder 40
Mental health centers, programs: UC Berkeley
Folder 41
Mental health centers, programs: New York City
Folder 42
New Mexico aging proposal
Folder 43
Northern California subregional research and evaluation: grant proposal
Folder 44
Retention of cultural values, 1969
