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From The Portland Business Journal, May 30, 2010 Mental health care provider returns to profitability and starts building a cash reserve Two years after a financial meltdown nearly destroyed Multnomah County’s safety net for the mentally ill, the nonprofit at the center of the crisis has rebounded. Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare Inc. is a shadow of […]
From the Portland Skanner, May 27, 2010 Tyrone Waters, a Gulf War veteran who has battled paranoid schizophrenia – often publicly – since 1995, this week released his first spoken word CD about the events leading up to his shooting by Portland Police during a mental breakdown outside his home in 2001. Recorded in the […]
From the Willamette Week, May 28, 2010 A Multnomah County grand jury has found no criminal liability in the Portland police’s fatal shooting of Keaton Dupree Otis. The May 12 shooting death of the 25-year-old Otis during a traffic stop in the Lloyd District was the third fatal shooting by Portland police this year There […]
From The Portland Mercury, May 27, 2010 Sinking Ship – Prisons Try to Improve Mental Health Services; They Cut Them Instead There are 13,982 inmates currently residing in all 14 of Oregon’s prisons. Of those prisoners, 6,844 (or 49 percent) have a diagnosed mental illness. Concerned about the treatment of inmates who have both a […]
Testimony to the Oregon House of Representatives by Anthony Aldeguer, from May 25, 2010 Madam Chair and Fellow Committee Members, I am honored to be granted this privilege to speak before you. I am a patient at Oregon State Hospital. I come before you to speak on behalf of myself, my peers and more importantly […]
From the Salem Statesmen Journal Oregon State Hospital on Dipity.
Guest opinion by Jason Renaud, published in the Salem Statesman Journal, May 25, 2010 Advocates for persons with mental illness remain unconvinced the state should return to the bad practices of the 19th century by both building and committing a future hundred years of resources to state psychiatric hospitals. This financial and political commitment, from […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, May 25, 2010 Critics say money would be better spent providing services in community Building two new mental hospitals to replace the Oregon State Hospital in Salem doesn’t make sense during the worst recession in generations, critics say. The two-hospital plan grew out of a state-commissioned report issued in 2006 […]
Editorial opinion by State Senate President Peter Courtney, published in the Salem Statesman Journal, May 25, 2010 We stood there strangely quiet. Nobody knew what to say. Sadness, shock and guilt filled the air. It was November 2004 and while touring the Oregon State Hospital, my staff and I had just discovered the room of […]
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