The Open Door Clinic, a volunteer social service agency and free clinic, opened in Seattle’s University District in October 1967. The staff included psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, lab techs and social workers who provided around-the-clock intervention, medical help and counseling to drug and alcohol abusers and others with challenges. The clinic also helped juvenile runaways by providing shelter and putting them in touch with their parents. The Open Door Clinic closed in 1980 for lack of funding.
The shape of this sign and its statement that space was donated by Washington Transit Advertising indicates that it was used in area buses.
Caption information source: HistoryLink.org Essay 3306.
ID Number: 2015.47.3
Date: Circa 1974
Physical Description: 1 poster : color ; 28 x 11 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
Credit: MOHAI, Janet Hesslein Collection on the Open Door Clinic and Gay Women's Resource Center, 2015.47.3
