Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate
From the Oregonian, April 10, 2014 Monthly health care costs for Medicaid recipients who live at the Bud Clark Commons in Portland plummeted 55 percent after moving into the alcohol-and-drug-tolerant public housing project, according to a new study. But those savings were inflated by 9 percentage points because two high-needs residents apparently died almost immediately […]
The Oregonian, Feb. 12, 2014 With 30 percent of defendants showing up to the 1 1/2 -year-old community court at Bud Clark Commons, Multnomah County prosecutors are trying something new to increase attendance. Deputy District Attorney Laurie Abraham said a six-month pilot program recently began reducing the time between an officer’s citation for city ordinance […]
The Portland Tribune, Jan. 9, 2014 Reports of drug dealing plague Old Town homeless experiment Bud Clark Commons Portland police are concerned that the city’s highest profile public housing project is becoming unmanageable. In early December, Portland Police Chief Mike Reese told the city’s Housing Commissioner Dan Saltzman that he was considering filing a chronic […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 25, 2013 To get a sense of how things are going at the Bud Clark Commons Community Court, check out its chairs. Each Friday afternoon, the docket for the court lists dozens of transient offenders accused of minor, quality-of-life-type offenses—things like drinking in public, urinating in public, smoking pot in […]
Portland Police Bureau news release, May 15, 2013 The Portland Police Bureau investigated four incidents of suicide from May 11 to May 13, 2013, and wants to remind the community that suicide is preventable and help is available. On Saturday May 11, 2013, at approximately 11:30 a.m., Central Precinct officers responded to Northwest Broadway, between […]
By Peter Korn, Portland Tribune, March 28, 2013 Ten months ago Multnomah County opened the nation’s first court set in a homeless facility. Nobody showed up. In what court authorities around the country labeled a potential breakthrough experiment, Multnomah County’s Community Court last year moved its Friday afternoon operation to Bud Clark Commons. The court […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, March 01, 2012 It was about 9pm on a blustery, rain-soaked Tuesday night — and, yet, thanks to a horde of Mardi Gras revelers, Old Town was unusually festive. Precisely what happened next isn’t exactly clear, but the basic inflections of the story, told by a handful of different […]
From the Portland Observer, August 3, 2011 As the City of Portland’s 10-year-plan to end homelessness is reaching its half way mark, government agencies, non-profits and institutions have partnered together to get homeless people into permanent homes after a net loss over the past several decades of affordable housing in the downtown area. One such […]
From The Portland Tribune, May 10, 2011 Housing First policy opens doors to alcoholics and drug users Jason Renaud was trying to help a longtime street addict who said he was finally willing to do what it takes to stop being homeless. For the first time in 20 years, the man sobered up and secured […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 5, 2011 Portland’s most vulnerable have a shot at a free home John hasn’t had a place to live in four years. Being in and out of jail is the closest he’s come to that. A longtime methamphetamine addict, John (not his real name) says he mostly uses marijuana now. […]
© Mental Health PDX 2019. Powered by WordPress