Center is a service facility of the Chicago Board of Health. It also functions as a laboratory in social and community psychiatry. It is located in an urban, Negro community of 82,000 people on the South Side of Chicago. Woodlawn is defined as a community both by natural boundaries and by historical tradition. It has been described as a transitional community. It has at times served many ethnic groups as the area through which populations have passed on their way out of the inner city toward eventual middle-class status.1 In recent years, this ecological function has been hampered by the increasing age of its buildings, by severe overcrowding, low income, and the specific problems of its Negro citizens in acquiring acceptance in the middleclass areas of the larger city. The Center works collaboratively with a community Advisory Board of approximately twenty people from the neighborhood, who represent as wide a variety of political and social values as possible. Some of the members are