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From the Portland Business Journal, December 10, 2015 Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare released architectural plans today for its new $3.5 million center in Northeast Portland. The facility will combine mental and physical health services with affordable housing. The organization has raised about $1.7 million for the project in the past five months, meaning the project looks […]
From the Portland Observer, December 20, 2013 How do you heal hurt people? Dr. Alicia Moreland-Capuia would like to think she has an answer for young men of color who have been scarred by traumatic injuries and need help to escape a life of recurring violence and retribution. A licensed and board-certified psychiatrist who is […]
By Denis Theriault, The Portland Mercury, Jan. 16, 2013 The thought was hard to escape. If life had gone just a little bit differently—if the feds had waited to crack down on Portland cops for years of rough treatment of the mentally ill, if Occupy Portland hadn’t sprouted right when it did in 2011, if […]
By Maggie Bennington-Davis, MD, Chief Medical & Operations Officer of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare The shooting in Connecticut is horrible, and is likely affecting all of us in varying ways. Many of us are also much affected by the shooting at the Clackamas mall – both in our own lives and those of our clients. These […]
By Joseph D. Bloom, MD – Dean Emeritus at the School of Medicine and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University. From – Conundrums and Controversies in Mental Health and Illness • Winter 2010 In 1848 Dorothea Dix, the famous 19th century advocate for the indigent mentally ill, appealed […]
From the Clackamas Review, June 19, 2012 The clinic on Southeast Lake Road just east of Milwaukie city limits, provides psychiatric evaluation; individual, family and group therapy; and peer-oriented support; and treatment for drug- and alcohol-related problems. The clinic has 18 employees who have serve 260 county residents since opening. It is growing and not […]
By Derald Walker, chief executive officer of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare Inc., in The Portland Tribune, June 7, 2012 READ – Cascadia Housing: not always for healing, Portland Tribune, May 24, 2012 Despite misinformation, independent living is key to survival Cascadia Housing has long been a proud and important provider of specialty low-income housing for people […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 24, 2012 Eric Hossack is trying to regain the inner strength to live on his own again, and cope with a mental illness that led him to heroin addiction, homelessness and multiple suicide attempts. But recovery isn’t so easy living at Harriet Court. The 16-unit apartment building near Southeast Portland’s […]
From the Portland Tribune, April 26, 2012 Advocates push for more freedom; board sees trouble ahead Matthew Kirby, a mental health activist in the new group Fair Shake, is challenging the authority of the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board. For a decade, Rex Gorger had lived at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem following a […]
Salem Statesman Journal, March 18, 2012 For decades, the Oregon State Hospital was mired in misery. Behind the Salem hospital’s crumbling facade, mentally ill Oregonians were packed into a bleak, antiquated and unsafe asylum. New state-of-the-art facilities are now in place, but opinions are divided when it comes to a key question: Are patients receiving […]
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