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By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 4, 2013 Carol Slaney woke up Jan. 31 to find her 26-year-old son dead beside her bed from an accidental drug overdose. She grabbed a .45-caliber revolver and disappeared, hiding in an abandoned house behind her Southeast Portland apartment. “I just sat in that house, spinning the gun, planning […]
Mayor Charlie Hales stunned Multnomah County officials Tuesday when he announced that the city would no longer pay its share of a 16-bed secure mental health treatment center that opened two years ago after the death of James P. Chasse Jr. Portland police haven’t taken anyone to the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center despite a much-celebrated […]
Portland Police Chief Mike Reese presented a report to the Downtown Public Safety Action Committee on Feb. 14th, defending his bureau’s record in dealing with suicidal people. So far, there are seven stories in the local media, included in full in this post – use the following Links to go to each section. The Oregonian: […]
Portland Mercury, November 21, 2007 – County Chair Ted Wheeler has accepted an invitation by mental health activists to attend a public meeting to discuss his apparent failure, so far, to prioritize a sub-acute facility for the mentally ill in Portland. Wheeler told the Mercury at the end of last month he might not secure […]
From The Portland Business Journal, June 6, 2004 Four years ago, Multnomah County’s mental health care system, like so many of its patients, was in crisis. People struggling with severe but manageable mental illnesses were unnecessarily hospitalized at great expense. Lack of adequate emergency services and poor coordination among Portland-area mental health agencies led to […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The area’s mental health care system is in a state of disrepair, but county officials have created a stop-gap plan Anyone involved in the local mental health system as a client, provider, administrator or family member has been familiar with the litany of faults and failures of […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was full. The closure of […]
From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was […]
From the Oregonian, July 20, 2001 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners got its first detailed look Thursday at the numbers behind the county’s mental health system crisis — and the proposed redesign for dealing with it. The board is scheduled to vote Aug. 9 on the so-called Gap Plan to deal with the imminent […]
From The Oregonian, June 8, 1999 – not elsewhere online THE CITY LINKS WITH THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A CONFERENCE BROADCAST LIVE TO 6,000 SITES NATIONWIDE Sandy Hayden suddenly sat up in her threadbare easy chair and focused on the television. It was January, and President [Bill] Clinton had just announced plans for a White […]
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