Community Council was established in 1968 by the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center (PPC) through a staffing grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) under the Community Mental Health Act of 1963. In 1978, the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health and Mental Retardation arranged for the Northwestern Institute of Psychiatric to manage us, known as Catchment Area 4 at that time. Northwestern established the infrastructure of fiscal, personnel and building service units. Following the end of Northwestern’s management in, 1979, the agency had a number of gatekeepers including the West Philadelphia Mental Health Consortium and the Ducat Corporation, a management consultant firm. The current Community Council’s genesis started in 1980 with a community board of directors that called the organization Catchment Area Four Community Council. A Board of Directors, composed of 12 representatives from the West Philadelphia community, governs the Community Council Corporation.