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The Mental Health Association of Portland, along with Metro, have created an online survey to collect opinions and ideas about a new memorial space at Lone Fir Cemetery. Input from the mental health community is being solicited NOW. Click Here to take our survey One public meeting has already been held to collect community input. […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 25 2008 Soon, up to 15 people who have committed violent crimes will be moving into one house in the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood, on the edge of Southeast Portland. Neighbors in Ardenwald-Johnson Creek are, understandably, upset. The controversial new residents are the future patients of Balfour House, a planned healthcare […]
METRO is our regional government which in part manages pioneer cemeteries, including the Lone Fir Cemetery, located in inner SE Portland. For over one hundred years Lone Fir Cemetery has been the resting place for hundreds of patients of the Hawthorne Asylum. These graves are unmarked, relatively unknown, and until recently were rudely covered with […]
From the Oregonian, September 18 2008 Jaws dropped in the Legislature’s Joint Ways and Means Committee today when budget-writers heard that the Oregon State Hospital needs 1,000 additional staff for the new mental hospital in Salem. The estimated price: $124 million. The Legislature had agreed to spend $458.1 million to replace the dilapidated 125-year-old state […]
Cascadia’s peer-driven monthly newsletter is Eyes and Ears, 28 pages filled with resources and news clips about politics, policy and play. Download and read the September 2008 issue. Included in the September issue – * The County’s Mental Health / Cascadia Update * Lone Fir Cemetery and the Asylum Patients of Dr. James Hawthorne * […]
From the Portland Tribune, September 18 2008 Law’s intent debated as DHS declines to show data on specific facilities When Oregon mental health advocates successfully lobbied for a bill last legislative session that would require hospitals to report to state officials how often they forcibly restrained and secluded psychiatric patients, the advocates thought they had […]
From the Portland Tribune, September 18 2008 Starting Oct. 1 – more than two years after the death of James Chasse Jr. following a fracas with the Portland Police – the officers involved finally will get their day in court, so to speak. Officer Christopher Humphreys and Sgt. Kyle Nice will appear before a police-bureau […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 17 2008 25 protesters from the Portland Coalition Against Poverty have been marching around the downtown justice center this afternoon with signs like this: “We’re here to hold the police accountable for their actions through community power,” said organizer Patrick Lamson. Behind him, protesters chanted things like “Chasse died, the […]
From the Oregonian, September 17, 2008 The family of a 41-year-old psychiatrist gunned down in his Portland office June 26, 1985, spoke out Wednesday, on the eve of today’s hearing to decide whether his alleged killer should be let out of the state mental hospital. It’s been 23 years since Jane McCulloch, a mother of […]
From the Oregonian, September 16 2008 Mental health – Advocates remember James P. Chasse Jr., who died in police custody To mark the second anniversary of James P. Chasse Jr.’s death, the Mental Health Association of Portland Tuesday wrote in chalk outside Portland’s Central Precinct the names of a dozen people who were either killed […]
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