Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate
Portland Oregon’s City Club is a non-partisan membership organization which hosts national and local speakers on a variety of issues. Members of City Club join committees to distill issues of the day and some of these committee’s, over the years, have issued reports about mental illness, alcoholism and addiction, homelessness and poverty. The Club has […]
From the Portland Tribune, September 18, 2013 It took Jerome Gilgan three stints in residential treatment before he started to get a handle on his drug addiction and his life of crime. Gilgan was one of the lucky ones. He returning twice to the Volunteers of America men’s center in Northeast Portland because he was […]
From the Eugene Register Guard, September 19, 2013 Ruling against Lane County, a judge upholds the treatment center’s status as a charity In a victory worth more than $200,000 for Eugene-based Serenity Lane, the Oregon Tax Court has ruled that the substance abuse treatment center’s properties should not be taxed. Tax Court Judge Henry Breithaupt […]
From The Oregonian, September 18, 2013 The last time Nick Teixeira saw Damon Coates, he shot Coates in the face. When they met on Wednesday, Teixeira handed Coates a religious medallion and asked for forgiveness. It was a rare, if not unprecedented, moment that followed a hearing at the Oregon State Hospital, where Teixeira has […]
Op-Ed by Israel Bayer, Street Roots, September 18, 2013 The Pearl District for many represents a neighborhood on the rise — a shining example of how to plan urban growth, public transportation, sustainability, parks and the environment. The list goes on. Add a bustling food and art scene, a growing tech community, and a neighborhood […]
From The Lund Report, September 19, 2013 Rep. Bob Jenson of Pendleton told The Lund Report he’s hoping to find a way to delay the closure of Eastern Oregon’s state mental hospital before its doctors and nurses leave for work elsewhere. Rep. Jennifer Williamson of Portland suggested converting it into a much-needed prison hospital for […]
From the Oregonian, September 18, 2013 Two weeks after the death of Lee Perlman, his rundown, 110-year-old Portland bungalow is a swarm of activity. Former friends, contractors and city staffers scurry around the property dividing up the rundown home’s contents. Every surface is covered. Newspapers are stacked four feet tall in the corners. A mound […]
By Katherine Driessen, The Oregonian, Sept. 16, 2013 Funding services for the chronically homeless is often packaged with a social or moral appeal. A Washington County-based study is attempting to determine if there’s a new economic case to be made. Specifically, what is the financial burden chronically homeless residents place on emergency services like emergency […]
SENT BY EMAIL, September 16, 2013 To: Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum: The Mental Health Association of Portland has been following the case of James Flavy Coy Brown, who was released from Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital without discharge planning and transported by bus to Sacramento, where he was found, suicidal and confused, at a homeless […]
By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, Sept. 11, 2013 State officials have agreed to a $1.4 million settlement with the family of a patient at the Oregon State Hospital who died in his room but wasn’t discovered for hours. Moises Perez, 42, died in October 2009, of coronary artery disease and had recently complained of chest […]
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