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By DArliiNE HU ltHIINSUN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Everybody needs a friend, but probably the men and women at Laurel House are a little bit needier than most, rhey are the former patients at state hospitals who have been released through the deinstitutionalization program that began in the 1950s.
“A lot of them had successful lives before their break. They had businesses, jobs, families. They were successes in school. It’s hard for them. They know what they were like .before. They remember,” said Kathy Wright, site supervisor at the psycho-social center which s run by the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Servces Board.
Following the acclaimed Fountain House model of psychiatric rehabilitation, Laurel House is a club. And ike all clubs, it strives to make its members feel that bey belong to a vital and significant society to which bey can make an important contribution; that someone anticipates their coming to the clubhouse and that their Mining makes a difference; that they are wanted and that bey are needed.
The club’s 38 members come from different social ind economic levels. “Some were in college when they bad their first break,” Mrs. Wright noted. “Others never
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