ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how Number Nine developed a strategy for dealing with outside groups — in effect, a "foreign policy." Number Nine was greeted enthusiastically by liberals within the community. Pressure from funding sources and the community were the context in which Number Nine had to formulate a "foreign policy" which would insure its survival, growth, and influence. Number Nine and the State Street Center share ownership of the building, personnel, and a corporation, and the work done as part of the State Street Center has so far helped to develop new directions and assets for the service program. During the summer of 1970 Number Nine was swamped with people moving across the country and was in tune with both the radical and the freak community. Number Nine's most extensive and most conflict-laden relationships are with local psychiatric and social welfare institutions. Number Nine's relation to social work agencies, such as welfare and probation, focuses on different themes.
