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imbecile or feeble-minded."<ref> History of BSDC, State of Nebraska, http://dhhs.ne.gov/Documents/HisDocs_History%20of%20BSDC_1986.pdf, Accessed Dec 08 2014.</ref>.
 
imbecile or feeble-minded."<ref> History of BSDC, State of Nebraska, http://dhhs.ne.gov/Documents/HisDocs_History%20of%20BSDC_1986.pdf, Accessed Dec 08 2014.</ref>.
  
In 1921, the name was changed to the Nebraska Institution for the Feeble-minded along with a new mission statement, which aimed to provide "custodial care and human treatment for those who are feeble-minded, to segregate them from society, to study to improve their condition, to classify them, and to furnish such training in industrial mechanics, agriculture, and academic subjects as fitted to acquire".  
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In 1921, the name was changed to the Nebraska Institution for the Feeble-minded along with a new mission statement, which aimed to provide
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"custodial care and human treatment for those who are feeble-minded, to segregate them from society, to study to improve their condition, to classify them, and to furnish such training in industrial mechanics, agriculture, and academic subjects as fitted to acquire".  
  
 
By 1935, in order to assure complete separation from society, NIFM resident’s graves were no longer marked with family names, but with numbers; families desired to disassociate themselves from their “defective” relatives by dehumanizing them. The institution changed its name again in 1942 to the Beatrice State Home, a friendlier title. Sterilizations were confined solely to the Beatrice State Home in 1957.  
 
By 1935, in order to assure complete separation from society, NIFM resident’s graves were no longer marked with family names, but with numbers; families desired to disassociate themselves from their “defective” relatives by dehumanizing them. The institution changed its name again in 1942 to the Beatrice State Home, a friendlier title. Sterilizations were confined solely to the Beatrice State Home in 1957.  
  
By the mid-1960's the Center had reached its peak census of over 2,200. Since it had neither the physical plant nor the staff to provide even minimally adequate custodial care, several hundred of its residents were temporarily transferred to the Norfolk Regional Center and the former Kearney Tuberculosis Hospital. While that effort did little to improve
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Through the 1960s, three perspectives governed the asylum: education, asylum, and social control. By 1966, 752 residents at the Beatrice facility had been sterilized. Then, on July 1st, 1975, the Beatrice State Home became the Beatrice State Developmental Center, the name that it holds today. The Center specializes in the treatment of children and adults with behavioral and developmental disabilities.
conditions for the majority of the residents who remained, it signified an executive commitment to end an eighty year reliance on the facility as Nebraska's only solely state supported and operated residential/training program exclusively for mentally retarded Nebraskans of all ages.  
 
  
 
According to a 1976 report from Carl Botsford, from the Nebraska Institute of Engineering;
 
According to a 1976 report from Carl Botsford, from the Nebraska Institute of Engineering;
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for the 56 years." <ref> HISTORY OF NEBRASKA INSTITUT. 1S. Carl Botsford, D.P.I. Engineering at D.P.I Management Institute, Nov 3rd 1976. Accessed Dec 08 2014.</ref>  
 
for the 56 years." <ref> HISTORY OF NEBRASKA INSTITUT. 1S. Carl Botsford, D.P.I. Engineering at D.P.I Management Institute, Nov 3rd 1976. Accessed Dec 08 2014.</ref>  
  
Through the 1960s, three perspectives governed the asylum: education, asylum, and social control. By 1966, 752 residents at the Beatrice facility had been sterilized. Then, on July 1st, 1975, the Beatrice State Home became the Beatrice State Developmental Center, the name that it holds today. The Center specializes in the treatment of children and adults with behavioral and developmental disabilities. In 2009, the center lost its federal funding after being cited for inadequate medical care. The facility has rebounded in recent years, and the number of residents has declined from 370 a decade ago. However, concerns about the high cost of care at Beatrice, and its shrinking population, prompted state lawmakers in 2016 to order a study of its future.
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