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NEWS STORIES Portland Committee on Community-engaged Policing holds meeting, seeks applicants, KATU.com May 10, 2018 A New Citizen Board Charged With Police Oversight Might Have Less Power than the One It’s Replacing, Portland Mercury, July 28, 2018 Portland hires 2 firms to develop new community policing group, Oregonian, April 18, 2018 Portland Committee for Community-Engaged […]
Paige Matthews, Guest column in Salem Statesmen Journal – September 7, 2018 Paige Matthews, MA, NCC, is a co-occurring therapist at Bridgeway Recovery Services in Salem. A co-Occurring therapist provides individual and group counseling for people with co-occurring mental health and substance-use disorders. Matthews specializes in LGBTQ+ substance use and mental health counseling. Reach her […]
READ – Motion for Amicus Curiae Status by the Mental Health Alliance In December 2012, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the City of Portland, alleging improper use-of-force by the Portland Police Bureau against members of a protected class. The US Attorney’s Office and the DOJ Civil Rights Division sought injunctive and […]
From The Oregonian, September 11, 2018 A new alliance of mental health advocacy groups wants a seat at the table in the court’s review of the city of Portland’s four-year old settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice stemming from police use of excessive force against people with mental illness. The alliance was formed […]
Portland Tribune, September 05, 2018 Probe followed former employee’s complaint of being muzzled by county mental health managers. Multnomah County is releasing new details of how it is reviewing its handling of abuse complaints regarding adults with mental illness in the wake of a former employee going public with concerns. And it is hoping to […]
Annual gathering held at Esther Short Park in Vancouver Columbian, September 3, 2018 11:57 a.m.: The last of the crowd packed onto the Interstate 5 Bridge on Monday, trading high-fives with volunteers as people stretched from the north bank to the south bank of the Columbia River. 11:59 a.m.: Hundreds of adults, children and pets […]
Gresham Outlook – August 24, 2018 Planned brewery would be next door to a treatment center for Native American youths A controversy is brewing in Gresham. Inner Fire Brewing is attempting to open a location in Gresham at 633 E. Powell Blvd., placing it adjacent to a treatment center focused on helping Native American youths […]
Testimony for Multnomah County Commission – August 23, 2018 Beckie and I are here today to speak about the safety of thousands of patients at Unity Center, and in the dozens of other hospitals, clinics, alcohol and drug treatment centers, nursing homes, jails, daycare centers, schools, adult foster homes, residential care facilities, mental health treatment […]
OP – ED published in the Portland Tribune, August 14, 2018 Author Dean Gisvold is a Portland attorney, a board member emeritus of Central City Concern, a board member of Network for Affordable Housing (NOAH); reach him at dpgisvold AT gmail.com. Recent articles in the Portland Tribune and emails from the Portland Police Association (PPA) […]
Portland Business Journal – August 7, 2018 The psychiatric center’s leader is confident it can make fixes by Sept. 11 to keep state, federal compliance In five weeks, the Unity Center for Behavioral Health faces a crucial milestone: Will the psychiatric facility retain or lose its federal certification, and ability to receive reimbursement from Medicare […]
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