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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 […]
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 […]
From the Lund Report, July 2020 The Oregon Health Authority plans to add new management positions to its behavioral health division, even as the agency faces potential budget cuts that could slice hundreds of millions from programs and services. The positions are part of an overhaul of the authority’s behavioral health unit that was in […]
The Work Group to Decriminalize Mental Illness usually meets monthly to discuss state legislative work. The work group is open to the public, and chaired by Judge Patrick Wolke and St. Senator Floyd Prozanski. To get updates contact Channa Newell – Channa.Newell@oregonlegislature.gov Documents distributed June 10 Oregon Jails during COVID-19 – A Look Inside 29 […]
“Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them — will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard […]
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