The State - News from Feb. 17, 1989

The Central Valley Regional Center, which serves as the major referral placement agency for thousands of developmentally disabled people in the San Joaquin Valley, could be forced to close its doors in April. Warren McEwen, director of the center, said he expects the agency and 20 others like it throughout the state to shut down in April because of a lack of operating funds. He said most of the Central Valley Center’s 164 employees, who work in Fresno, Madera, Merced, Mariposa, Tulare and Kings counties, will be laid off if the center is forced to close. McEwen said a glitch in state funding will apparently force the centers to close in April, leaving about 90,000 developmentally disabled people in the state without services.