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Month: April 2016

Portland’s Mental Health Crisis: A Continuing Dilemma

April 28, 2016
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You won’t want to miss this informative breakfast forum on May 25. REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW. Portland’s overcrowded emergency rooms have become a place of last resort for psychiatric patients. Psychiatric boarding, defined as psychiatric patients’ waiting in hallways or other emergency room areas for inpatient beds, is a serious problem nationwide. Boarding consumes precious […]

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Crisis training can change the way officers respond to persons with mental illness

April 26, 2016
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The New York Times, April 25, 2016 The 911 caller had reported a man with a samurai sword, lunging at people on the waterfront. It was evening, and when the police arrived, they saw the man pacing the beach and called to him. He responded by throwing a rock at the embankment where they stood. […]

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Opinion: More options, not more beds

April 26, 2016
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The Register-Guard, April 21, 2016 When a state psychiatric hospital has empty beds, it’s a good sign for Oregon’s health system and for people who struggle with mental illness. While a March 22 Register-Guard story focused on unopened beds at the Oregon State Hospital facility in Junction City, Oregon’s state hospitals are grappling with a […]

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Anna Putnam on road back from bipolar disorder

April 26, 2016
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Portland Tribune, April 14, 2016 Anna Putnam will always remember the day her mind snapped. “I remember exactly where I was and when,” Putnam says. “I was watching the Oregon vs. Oregon State Civil War football game on TV in December 2010. Some switch flipped in my brain, and I went into a deeper and […]

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Appeal by Matthew Klug Delayed by Police No-Show

April 21, 2016
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Press Release – immediate April 20, 2016 Mental Health Association of Portland APPEAL BY MATTHEW KLUG DELAYED BY POLICE NO-SHOW CRC Votes To Compel Testimony Matthew Klug waited a year for justice – and will wait at least another month. Both officers and commanders of the Portland Police Bureau – as directed by Commander Donna […]

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Portland Punk Posters circa 1978-1983

April 15, 2016
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These posters accumulated in the Mental Health Association of Portland’s giant warehouse as we created the award-winning documentary, Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse. Chasse, a fan and musician in Portland’s early punk scene was brutally killed by three law enforcement officers in 2006. The State, City and County failed to hold […]

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Medical leaders at Unity Center announced

April 15, 2016
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The Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University is pleased to announce that Gregory A. Miller, MD, MBA has agreed to join our faculty and be the first Chief Medical Officer for the Unity Center for Behavioral Health. Dr. Miller joins us from the State of New York, where he serves as Medical Director […]

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Junction City institution remains costly and half occupied step backwards

April 14, 2016
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The Lund Report, April 13, 2016 The view from behind the gray concrete walls of the Oregon State Hospital in Junction City looks out upon the yellow-green bucolic plain of the Willamette Valley to dark green foothills on both sides of Lane County. The view inside the immaculate hospital is of a fresh, bunkered community […]

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Clark County sued for withholding video of jail deputies killing Mychael Lynch

April 7, 2016
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Video part of review that cleared jail staff in the fatal 2015 struggle Eds. Note: Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Tony Golik failed to publicly distribute his investigation of the death of Mycheal Lynch, to name the deputies who killed Lynch, or to bring the deputies to a grand jury or public inquest. We’ve asked for […]

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Lawsuit says inmate with mental illness died of thirst in Lincoln County Jail

April 3, 2016
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The Oregonian, April 1, 2016 Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies failed to respond to the needs of an inmate who suffered from mental illness and was found dead, lying naked in a jail cell in April 2015, about two weeks after he was booked on misdemeanor allegations, a federal lawsuit filed Friday alleges. Bradley Thomas was […]

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