State's McFarland Mental Health Center renamed to honor woman ...

Gov. Pritzker Announces Mental Health Center Renamed for ...

... Services (IDHS) announced a new name for the McFarland Mental Health Center. ... State for recognizing this very special woman." This renaming reflects the ...

A state-run mental ...

He oppressed her, and state takes his name off mental health center

National Women's History Museum. Elizabeth Packard's struggles force state to rename McFarland Mental Health Center ... honor deeply and I ...

Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center renamed for one of the ...

Truly the woman they could not silence, Elizabeth deserves this honor deeply and I am so grateful to the Governor and the State for recognizing ...

Illinois renames McFarland Mental Health Center - KHQA

Renaming this Center in honor of Elizabeth Packard, who founded the Anti-Insane Asylum Society and pushed multiple states to reform their ...

Elizabeth Packard new namesake of state mental health center

"Renaming the McFarland Center for Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard recognizes that her revolutionary social justice vision of mental health ...

McFarland Center Name Change Rooted in Jacksonville History

The new name was an initiative by IDHS Division of Mental Health staff to honor Packard, who in 1860, at age 43, was admitted to the Illinois ...

Governor Pritzker announces new name for McFarland Mental ...

... celebrate the legacy of this incredible woman at the Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center. And with that, I'd like to invite Governor ...

Pritzker renames Springfield mental health center after women's ...

“Renaming this Center in honor of Elizabeth Packard … is an important step in the right direction.” The center was named after Andrew McFarland ...

Author explains how she came to tell Elizabeth Packard's story

The book stirred a petition to rename a state mental health center in Springfield for Packard, replacing that of Andrew McFarland, a doctor who ...

State's McFarland Mental Health Center renamed to honor woman ...

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in ...

New name for McFarland Mental Health Center in Springfield - WJBC

... Hospital,” said Jenn Edginton, interim director of the Ilinois State Museum, “for being an independent woman and disagreeing with his opinions.

Never ceases to amaze us… - Rockford Women's Suffrage Plaza

Last year, the State of Illinois confronted history and rectified a past injustice by renaming what was known as McFarland Mental Health Center in ...

Insane treatment of women | Books - Illinois Times

... McFarland's name needs to be scrubbed from Springfield's own mental health center. Some of my book club friends have jokingly (I hope) ...

Andrew McFarland - Wikipedia

In August 2023, the asylum was renamed from the Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center ... facility and to honor her subsequent work to reform mental health ...

Can a Husband Commit His Wife? The Woman They Could Not ...

... named in honor of the "good" doctor McFarland ... McFarland Mental Health Center the Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard Mental Health Center.

Pritzker announces the Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard Mental ...

... rename McFarland Mental Health ... State's McFarland Mental Health Center renamed to honor woman who publicized its former namesake's abusive ...

Elizabeth Packard - Wikipedia

Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (28 December 1816 – 25 July 1897), also known as E.P.W. Packard, was an American advocate for the rights of women and people ...

Illinois State... - Illinois State Historical Society - Facebook

Now, a state-run mental health center in ... McFarland the namesake of the Springfield psychiatric hospital when it opened in 1968. ... rename the facility ...

British author tells true story of heroine who battled for mental health ...

... women who were confined against their will in the Illinois State Hospital. ... State Hospital, would be renamed the Packard Mental Health Center.