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From The Oregonian, January 31, 2019 State Rep. Cedric Hayden, R-Roseburg, introduced legislation Wednesday that would establish three small around-the-clock support centers for Oregonians experiencing mental health crises. Opening such facilities would help “close one of the gaps in our mental health system where the choices right now seem to be either expensive hospitalizations or people […]
From the Oregonian – Gordon Friedman, January 27, 2019 Early one Monday last November, police arrested Kobe Yandell for napping in the lobby of a downtown Portland skyscraper. Officers took the wiry 21-year-old, who is homeless and has schizophrenia, to the Multnomah County jail, where he spent the next 52 days in isolation. A trespassing […]
This post will contain the records and media about the Multnomah County facility to be located at 333 SW Park Avenue. First public mention was January 17, 2018, but people – including supporters of this organization – have planned this project since 2012. Multnomah County Unveils Plans For Addiction and Mental Health Resource Center in […]
Eds. Note: In 2006 Chris Humphreys beat James Chasse, a man with schizophrenia, to death on the streets of Portand. He was not held accountable by the Portland Police Bureau or his colleague officers, or his employers at the City of Portland. After a landmark settlement with the Chasse family and the award-winning documentary film […]
KATU.com – December 21, 2018 A man is accused of attacking someone with a hatchet in downtown Portland, and court documents state that mental health issues may have played a role in the incident. The suspect, 35-year-old Nathan Shrader, pleaded not guilty to the attack. The other man involved did not need to go to […]
Portland Tribune, December 04, 2018 Investigators found 16 Unity Center cases should have gone to cops. County employees scrutinized. An internal review of how Multnomah County employees handled cases of alleged abuse and neglect of mentally ill people from greater Portland has spawned a criminal investigation, the Portland Tribune has learned. Among the issues that […]
Program in Eugene, Ore., is viewed as a model for reducing risk of violence Wall Street Journal – November 30, 2018 (SEE PDF FOR PHOTOGRAPHS) They are the kind of calls that roll into police departments with growing regularity: a man in mental crisis; a woman hanging out near a dumpster at an upscale apartment […]
Ruane Oliverio was moved out of a locked residential facility for people mental illness, despite warnings that she could get hurt. She ended up injured and hospitalized multiple times, and is now at the Oregon State Hospital. – Nov 17, 2018 Moving Oregonians with mental illness out of locked facilities was the goal. But things […]
Crowding, Boarding, and Patient Throughput (PDF) Position Statement from the Emergency Nurses Association with massive bibliography December 2017 Emergency Department Boarding of Psychiatric Patients in Oregon (PDF) Oregon Health Authority – no author listed February 1, 2017 Psychiatric Boarding in the Pediatric Inpatient Medical Setting: A Retrospective Analysis Katherine A.S. Gallagher, PhD, I. Simona Bujoreanu, […]
From KATU.com, November 8, 2018 READ – Corrections Grand Jury 2018 Report – Review of the Correctional Facilities In Multnomah County, Oregon (PDF) A corrections grand jury highlighted concerns related to mental illness, staffing and overcrowding in Multnomah County jails in an annual report card released Thursday. In the past year the county was forced […]
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