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Suspicions, money drive MultCo’s near split with state health reforms

July 18, 2014
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From the Oregonian, July 16, 2014 Emergency rooms flooded with people mentally ill or on drugs. A mental health program poorly managed. Agencies and health systems dumping people’s problems on each other to improve bottom lines. Oregon’s health reform law, approved with much fanfare and hope in 2012, was supposed to solve problems like these. Instead, […]

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Still waiting for someone to take the lead on mental health in Portland

June 24, 2014
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From Steve Duin of The Oregonian, June 24, 2014 I had my come-to-Jason moment in April, right after Jim Francesconi threatened to make mental health a critical issue in his campaign for Multnomah County chair.  Ten minutes with Jason Renaud convinced me Francesconi knew jack about the problem. The rest of the hour was taken up […]

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Campaign for Multnomah County Chair – Deborah Kafoury

March 29, 2014
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Increasing mental health and addiction services have not been a legislative priority for the County in recent years. Why do you think this was so? Increasing funding for mental health and addiction services has long been a legislative priority for Multnomah County, and I have personally testified and fought for more funding. In fact, last […]

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Now is not the time to give up on those who are homeless

September 25, 2013
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Op Ed by Deborah Kafoury, Multnomah County Commissioner, published in Street Roots, September 23, 2013 Last week, a young, frightened woman phoned my Multnomah County office looking for help. She was a mother, with three children, who needed housing. The family had been doubling up with a relative, but now that relative was moving out […]

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Hold the phone: Why is Multnomah County funding two crisis lines?

September 5, 2013
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By Dirk VanderHart, The Portland Mercury, Sept. 4, 2013 When local nonprofit Lines for Life persuaded Portland City Council a year ago to dole out $150,000 for expanded suicide hotline services, some in the mental-health community had concerns. Wouldn’t the organization increasingly be in competition with Multnomah County’s existing crisis call center? Why do we […]

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Called Out, Saltzman Now Seeking Up to $1.7 Million for Homelessness

August 18, 2013
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From The Portland Mercury, August 28, 2013 Commissioner Dan Saltzman‘s rapid education as the new overseer of the Portland Housing Bureau is continuing apace. After taking flak in a Mercury story this week for letting Mayor Charlie Hales drive a seemingly big-stick-tiny-carrot approach to homelessness—and talking up an idea, $250,000 for shelters, that better-versed advocates […]

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Mayor and columnist spar in the pages of The Oregonian on the issue of homelessness

August 15, 2013
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Mayor Charlie Hales: We’re using a measured approach to take back Portland’s sidewalks By Charlie Hales, Guest Column in The Oregonian, August 14, 2013 Lawlessness on Portland sidewalks is not a new issue, nor is it an easy one. So this summer, we crafted a plan to address lawlessness on the public right-of-way. The plan […]

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56 people died while homeless in 2012, Multnomah County reports

May 11, 2013
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Multnomah County news release, May 10, 2013 At least 56 people experiencing homelessness died in Multnomah County in 2012, an average of at least one every week. That is the troubling finding of Multnomah County’s second annual “Domicile Unknown’’ report released Friday, May 10. READ – Domicile Unknown, 2012 (PDF, 406KB) The analysis by Dr. Paul Lewis, […]

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Two Homeless Men Shot Under Morrison Bridge Were Turned Away From Shelter the Night Before

February 25, 2012
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By David Stabler, The Oregonian, Friday, February 24, 2012 Hours before they bedded down Tuesday night under the Morrison Bridge, Carter “Joe” Hickman and Albert “Allen” Dean, sought shelter at an Old Town homeless tent area, said Ibrahim Mubarak, who runs the shelter. They were turned away for lack of room — an increasingly common […]

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Multnomah County Rebalances Budget to Account for $12 million in State Cuts

September 15, 2011
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From the Lund Report, September 15, 2011 – by Amanda Waldroupe The state’s new funding formula for allocating money to counties for mental health services takes funding away from some counties, gives money to others Multnomah County’s board of commissioners voted this morning to use $8 million dollars of its one-time only and general fund […]

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