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Islamic woman files discrimination suit against former employer, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare

October 11, 2016
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The Oregonian, Oct. 10, 2016 UPDATE: This story has been updated with new information — including from the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, which found that former employee Sharmin Rahman hadn’t proven discrimination. A woman of Islamic faith who was hired as a case manager at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare has filed a $1 million […]

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Mayor’s $924,000 homelessness plan will provide housing and services rolled into one

August 21, 2015
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Portland Tribune, Aug. 20, 2015 City, county and social service leaders announced new initiatives to better help those most in need in Portland on Thursday. The initiatives include a High-Intensity Street Engagement effort between the city of Portland and Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare to focus housing placement and retention efforts, including culturally specific wraparound services, for […]

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Posted in <a href="http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/housing/" rel="category tag">Housing</a> Tagged <a href="http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/cascadia-behavioral-healthcare/" rel="tag">Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare</a>, <a href="http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/charlie-hales/" rel="tag">Charlie Hales</a>, <a href="http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/homelessness/" rel="tag">Homelessness</a>, <a href="http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/homelessness-initiative/" rel="tag">Homelessness Initiative</a>, <a href="http://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/portland-business-alliance/" rel="tag">Portland Business Alliance</a> 1 Comment

fEARnoMUSIC sets concert to celebrate composers with mental illness

October 1, 2014
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Portland Mental Health Examiner, Oct. 1, 2014 As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 5-11, 2014), fEARnoMUSIC will perform an evening of chamber music written by composers with mental illness. The concert will be held Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, at The Secret Society in Northeast Portland. Doors open at 7 PM; the show begins […]

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Multnomah County to get mental health treatment team to serve criminal offenders

February 24, 2014
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The Oregonian, Feb. 11, 2014 Health Share of Oregon has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the state to set up Multnomah County’s first specialized team of mental health professionals dedicated to treating people with severe mental illnesses who have had frequent contact with police or frequent jail stays. Health Share will partner with Cascadia […]

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New legislation allows Oregon Lottery to fund outreach ads to problem gamblers

February 19, 2014
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The Portland Tribune, Feb. 18, 2014 Bingo became “a very addictive gambling gateway” for Damascus resident Janet Demoret and started all her problems. Demoret, 47, then found video-poker machines sponsored by the state and became hooked on all their “bells and whistles.” She quickly got in a lot of debt with friends and family members. […]

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Oregon Lottery gathers most of its money from problem gamblers

November 25, 2013
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In 2011, a team of Texas consultants hired by the Oregon Lottery visited dozens of Portland-area bars, restaurants and “delis” with video slot and poker machines to ask hundreds of patrons about their gambling habits. What they found is the exact opposite of the fun-loving image the lottery has cultivated for years. The biggest chunk […]

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Peer wellness workers help Cascadia clients achieve better health

October 16, 2013
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OPB News, Oct. 16, 2013 LISTEN – As the Affordable Care Act rolls out, the federal government has given Oregon wide latitude to come up with new ways to keep people healthy. A group that’s been particularly difficult to help over the years, is people with mental health issues. But one Portland clinic says it’s having success […]

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Police responded to four suicides last weekend

May 15, 2013
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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 […]

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Portland Police Bureau picks about 50 officers for specialized unit handling mental health crisis calls

April 9, 2013
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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 9, 2013 Portland police have selected about 50 officers who volunteered to be part of a new specialized unit to respond to mental health crisis calls. The new unit is one of the initiatives that federal justice investigators last year urged the bureau to adopt to improve police encounters […]

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Officers describe difficulties in day-to-day crisis response

December 12, 2012
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By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, Dec. 12, 2012 It’s an otherwise slow Monday night, but Officer Casey Hettman is tense. He and two other Portland police officers move through a dingy hallway and flank the locked apartment door. Behind the door is an agitated man who believes President Obama is ordering him to kill. The […]

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