 In the early 1970s, he had been part of a major collective effort in Nebraska to close Beatrice State Home, an institution for persons with intellectual impairments and to create community based alternatives for them.This effort, which involved considerable analysis and collaborative effort on the part of professionals, government bureaucrats, families, and community members, bore many fruits for the persons in question, and also served as a world-wide model for similar such efforts.Wolfensberger wrote about this in a chapter, “Why Nebraska?” of a book, “"Out of the Darkness and Into the Light"” (Schalock, 2002).