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From The Lund Report, September 12, 2013 The increased rates are closer to what providers in the rest of Washington are paid, and are expected to create a stronger workforce [Eds. Note – This assertion above is a laughable premise for raising rates and departs from basic public health financing.] The Southwest Washington Behavioral Health’s […]
From the Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 2013 A methadone clinic that was forced to move from East Main Street has set up shop on Murphy Road, catching some residents by surprise. “I did not know they had moved,” said Jessica Meza, who brought her 6-month-old son, Victor, to the pediatric clinic across the street. […]
From the Oregonian, September 9, 2013 Brady Hammer, an Oregon National Guard soldier who died in Texas on July 28 from what El Paso police say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was a “happy-go-lucky person,” according to his sister. READ – Brady Hammer’s obituary. But the 24-year-old’s moods were affected by a confusing cocktail of […]
CLICK HERE TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TODAY We all know stories about how one moment can change a life. One Sunday in December, 2012, my friend David Oaks reached to get his cat out of a loft. His foot slipped on the ladder and he fell backwards and broke his neck. He is now paralyzed […]
From The Oregonian, September 6, 2013 One swipe of the excavator bucket and there it was, a human skull. The construction crew digging a trench at the Oregon Zoo on Aug. 15 stopped what it was doing. Zoo officials notified the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. And in the weeks since, archaeologists have recovered the […]
By Dirk VanderHart, The Portland Mercury, Sept. 4, 2013 When local nonprofit Lines for Life persuaded Portland City Council a year ago to dole out $150,000 for expanded suicide hotline services, some in the mental-health community had concerns. Wouldn’t the organization increasingly be in competition with Multnomah County’s existing crisis call center? Why do we […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 4, 2013 When the Klamath County commissioners decided to transfer the mental health department to a nonprofit, they did it because the county was no longer financially able to provide the service. But an equally important question needed to be asked: will Klamath Youth Development Center do a […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 3, 2013 Dannielle Brown worked for the Klamath County mental health department for nine years. Now she is an employee of Klamath Youth Development Center, the nonprofit the county handed the department over to. She is the residential program supervisor of Phoenix Place, the only respite and residential […]
ONE SHOWING ONLY – September 17 – 7 PM at the Laurelhurst Theater in Portland. Alien Boy Director Brian Lindstrom will answer audience questions after the film. Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse is a feature-length documentary film that chronicles one man’s struggle with schizophrenia and examines the actions of the police […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 1, 2013 Though from the outside the process seemed sudden, boiling into a difficult situation within weeks, the county commissioners had an inkling of the direction they were headed before they sent a letter to the Oregon Health Authority on June 14 saying the county wanted out of […]
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