Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate
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Turning Point By: Ben Lonergan Sitting quietly in the passenger seat of a squeaky, white van, Brenton Gicker types quietly on a laptop as police dispatch rattles off instructions over the radio. Gicker, an eight-year veteran of White Bird Clinic’s Crisis Assistance Helping Out on The Streets (CAHOOTS), is employed by the city as a crisis […]
From the Corvallis Gazette Times, November 22, 2016 Employees at a residential psychiatric treatment facility for children in Corvallis routinely failed to perform mandatory welfare checks and falsified records to hide that fact, according to Oregon licensing records. The issues at the Children’s Farm Home came to light in August, when the state began investigating […]
Eds. Note – this private plan for resolving homelessness was rejected by the Portland Housing Bureau in October 2016. READ – Portland Homeless Facility Feasibility Study (PDF) I am very pleased to send you a copy of the “Portland Homeless Facility Feasibility Study,” a part of the work supported by your generous contribution of funding, […]
Portland Tribune, September 2016 Ryan Cowger, 32, was a 4.0 student who moved to Portland to start a new life after falling into opiate addiction. On Jan. 13, 2015, he was found dead in a shower at a transitional shelter after overdosing on heroin. These are just two among the 88 deaths of homeless people […]
From The Lund Report – July 2016 Oregon Housing and Community Services is now accepting proposals for $20 million in state funds to develop mental health and substance use housing across Oregon. Jan Johnson Affordable housing is in short supply particularly for people living with mental illness and addictions. The $20 million boost can definitely […]
Portland Tribune, June 28, 2016 Eds. Note – this is a completely useless article filled with assumptions and misguided notions of help, drifting quickly in the moral maze of civil liberties. The author does not understand the subject. Yet we feel compeled to include it as a snapshot of what goes on for thinking about […]
Statesman Journal, Jan. 31, 2016 Mentally ill residents of adult foster homes across Oregon are at risk of being displaced as providers face steep rate cuts. The cuts, negotiated by the Oregon Health Authority and SEIU 503, were necessary to keep the program sustainable, officials said. The new rates became effective Jan. 1. However, providers […]
The Oregonian, Jan. 24, 2016 On the semi-mean streets of Portland, nobody messes with Jennifer Candido. They wouldn’t dare. Even in the halls of a day shelter for homeless women, a safe place, Candido carries herself with the swagger and attitude of a prizefighter entering the ring – chin up, back straight, jaw set. “They […]
Group homes for [people with mental illness] – Part 1 NBC5 News, Nov. 2, 2015 Thousands of Southern Oregon residents are dealing with some sort of mental illness and thanks to the state, county, and private companies, many of them live together possibly in your neighborhood. These group homes are all over and you aren’t […]
Portland has been collecting data and issuing reports about homelessness for many years. The numbers bounced up and down mostly because of the definition of what “homeless” means (does it mean someone checked into a public shelter or living in a tent, or living in a family garage?), the collection methods, the survey budget, and […]
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