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This post documents the impact of COVID on the Oregon State Hospital. COVID arrived in Oregon March 2020. First OSH patient tests positive for COVID-19 OHA PRESS RELEASE Thursday, October 15, 2020 Oregon State Hospital is reporting its first patient to test positive for COVID-19. The patient began exhibiting symptoms Oct. 11 and was immediately […]
Portland Tribune October 13 2020 Trauma-informed design is one part of the new five floor center downtown opening in 2022 to help the chronically homeless. Some things don’t change in a recession: local government keeps spending and building as it addresses some of the worst crises Portland faces. In 2019, the Multnomah County board of […]
The Lund Report – September 2020 READ – Chronic and Systemic Issues in Oregon’s Mental Health Treatment System Leave Children and Their Families in Crisis (PDF) A 9-year-old boy waited in a hotel room for more than 100 days while waiting for mental health care. A 16-year-old girl with a history of sexual exploitation and […]
From the Lund Report, September 28, 2020 State and federal authorities have launched a new crackdown at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland following complaints that the psychiatric emergency hospital has failed yet again to keep fragile mental health patients safe. The latest list of issues is long: Sexual encounters in a bathroom. An […]
The Mental Health Association of Portland, one of Oregon’s most active advocates for people with mental illness, addiction, and alcoholism urges a NO vote on state Ballot Measure 110. The organization has never taken a position on a statewide ballot measure before. DOWNLOAD – the text of this opposition message (PDF) The ballot measure is […]
From the New York Review of Books, September 20, 2020 Eugene, Oregon—Every call that is dispatched through the radio, twenty-four hours a day, to the CAHOOTS crisis responders is a tiny mystery, a staticky, incomplete assemblage of details. “White female in her thirties, brown hair, black mid-length shirt, last seen on Sixth, yelling and running […]
As COVID-19 keeps some folks at home, grocery delivery and pickup should be available to people who receive food benefits Published in Street Roots, September 18, 2020 I’ve got a dilemma shared by thousands of poor, senior and disabled Oregonians. Like many Oregonians with a disability, I receive SNAP benefits. You may remember them as […]
The Lund Report – September 15, 2020 A high-powered governor’s council for behavioral health has ended its work, leaving members disappointed in the group’s failure to devise meaningful recommendations to move the needle on the state’s mental health crisis. Gov. Kate Brown’s Behavioral Health Advisory Council, created in October 2019, was a 35-member group with […]
Clancy I – AA History #1, Stateline Retreat 2009 Clancy I – AA History #2, Stateline Retreat 2009 Clancy I – Speaking on steps 1, 2 & 3, Stateline Retreat 2006 Clancy I – “The Invisible Boat” 1983 LEARN – about the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles. Clancy’s Obituary, Los Angeles Times September 1, 2020 […]
From The Lund Report, July 21, 2020 When Gov. Kate Brown set up her Behavioral Health Advisory Council in October 2019, advocates and medical professionals hoped Oregon would finally spark meaningful change in a system plagued with failure. The state recruited several dozen people from across government, the behavioral health sector and advocacy groups. Physicians, […]
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