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From the Portland Tribune, May 29 2009 One-night count could be skewed by weather and agency improvements Oregon’s sagging economy could be behind a large increase in the number of homeless people across the state. Information released Friday by the Oregon Housing and Community Services found a 37 percent jump from a year ago in […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, May 29 2009 Contract management likely will ‘protect state’s investment,’ report says A new state audit gives high marks to the Oregon State Hospital replacement team for its handling of the early stages of the $458 million project. READ – Oregon State Hospital Replacement: Good Construction Management Practices Help Protect […]
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown issued this audit report, Oregon State Hospital Replacement: Good Construction Management Practices Help Protect State Investment, in May of 2009. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Oregon Department of Human Services is in the early stages of constructing two new state psychiatric facilities to replace the outdated Oregon State Hospital. The Oregon […]
Substance abuse and addiction cost federal, state and local governments at least $467.7 billion in 2005, according to Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets, a new 287-page report released May 28 by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). The CASA report found that of […]
Run on Morning Edition, May 21 2009 LISTEN – Training Police To Handle Mental Illness Cases In 1987, a Memphis, Tenn., police officer shot and killed a mentally ill man who was cutting himself and threatening others. The incident inspired training programs to help police handle these tricky situations. Those programs are catching on. Confronting […]
Oregon State Hospital is in need of volunteers from the community to serve on its Seclusion and Restraint Committee. Oregon law mandates that the committee must have at least three community members. Committee members support the hospital’s goal to reduce and eliminate the use of seclusion or restraints. Community volunteers should have some knowledge of […]
Mechelle Hoselton (Stone) passed away as a direct result of bi-polar disorder this year in 2018. Despite struggling every moment since she was diagnosed in 2005, Mechelle devoted all her efforts to loving and helping everyone around her. Mechelle wanted nothing more than to educate others and to support them, and would help anyone regardless […]
Please Help Save Our Multnomah County Human Services! A hearing for Multnomah County Commissioners will be held Tuesday, May 26th, 6 – 8 PM 501 SE Hawthorne, Multnomah County Building, 1st Floor. The public will be allowed to comment. It will be a major catastrophe for Oregon’s most vulnerable citizens if critical human services are […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, May 23 2009 New psychiatric facility alone can’t fix Oregon’s mental health system, advocates say Construction will get under way next month on the first phase of a $280 million psychiatric hospital to replace the obsolete and unsafe Oregon State Hospital. But mental health advocates warn that it won’t cure […]
Multnomah County’s Mental Health and Addiction Services Division has posted several new documents worth reviewing recently on their web site. These include, Verity Annual Quality Report, dated February 2009. This presents a set of statistics about mental health treatment providers and results from surveys of clients about the quality of care provided through county contracts. […]
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