Thresholds to Life Records
Thresholds to Life is a program developed by psychiatrist Milton Burglass for training prison inmates and offenders on probation about decision making, problem solving, and life planning. It is operated by volunteers in 30 locations in the United States.
The Thresholds to Life collection includes records of the program in Greenfield, Mass., and contains newsletters, minutes, by-laws, treasurer’s reports, correspondence, news clippings, brochures, and lists of volunteers, board members, and staff.
Thresholds to Life is a training program for decision making, problem solving, and life planning taught by volunteers to prison inmates and offenders on probation in 30 locations in the United States. The programs are developed and coordinated by the non-profit organization Decisions, Inc. The curriculum was developed in 1965 by Dr. Milton Burglass, a psychiatrist who served time in a New Orleans prison for stock fraud.
The records in this collection are those of the Thresholds to Life program in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a United Way agency and include by-laws, minutes, treasurer’s reports, operating manuals, membership lists, newsletters, brochures, and newsclippings.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Thresholds to Life Records (MS 156). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Acquired from: James Craig, 1987, 1991.
Processed by Linda Seidman, May 1991.
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Board of directors meetings minutes
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1983-1986
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Box 1:1
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Mailings to members
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Box 1:2
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Brochures and publicity
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Box 1:3
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Newsletter
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1983 (Sept.)
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Box 1:4
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Accretion:
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By-laws
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1977
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Box 2:1
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Minutes (partial)
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1979-1989
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Box 2:2
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Treasurer’s reports
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1989
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Box 2:3
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Board members and staff
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1982-1990
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Box 2:4
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Correspondence, memos
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1978-1982
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Box 2:5
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Administrative records
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Box 2:6
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Lists of volunteers
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Box 2:7
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Mailings to members and volunteers
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1979-1986
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Box 2:8
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Training calendars, info.
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Box 2:9
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Project P.R.I.D.E.
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1981-1983
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Box 2:10
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UMass Office of Internships
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Box 2:11
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Newsletters
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1987-1989
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Box 2:12
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Newsclips, press releases
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1979-1990
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Box 2:13
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Brochures, flyers
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1983-1987, n.d.
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Box 2:14
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McAuliffe, Garrett. “Measuring the Outcomes of a Community College Career Decision-making Course.”
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1984
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Box 2:15
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Article on drug abuse
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Box 2:16
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Decisions manual, third revision
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Box 2:17
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Thresholds manual
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1972
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Box 2:18
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Decisions coursebook
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1978
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Box 2:19
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Thresholds operating manual
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1978?
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Box 2:20
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Manuals, etc. from related projects
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Box 2:21
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