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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 […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 16, 2013 Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announced Thursday that the city will not cut its share of funding for the Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center, as he had set out to do in his proposed budget. “We are gratified that people having serious mental health issues will continue to […]
By Steve Duin, The Oregonian, May 6, 2013 In chopping CATC — the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center — off at the knees, Mayor Charlie Hales is only looking to finish what the Portland police started. What remains to be seen is whether the cops’ stubbornness about the mental health facility is driving (a) the city’s […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, May 2, 2013 Mayor Charlie Hales‘ bid to pull the city’s share of funding for Multnomah County’s Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center—a 16-bed facility billed as a resource for police officers—has clearly irked County Chairman Jeff Cogen and even raised questions from at least one city commissioner, Amanda Fritz. […]
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 […]
By Dana Tims, The Oregonian, Feb. 1, 2013 With gun-control debates raging across the country, the sole consensus emerging from the Connecticut schoolhouse shooting is this: The U.S. needs to do a better job addressing mental health issues. Multnomah County board Chairman Jeff Cogen agrees and is making training of thousands of first-responders in “mental […]
by Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, March 29, 2012 The Portland Police Bureau is exploring a dramatic shift in the way it handles what’s become a flood of calls involving the mentally ill — with plans in the works for a new, specialized unit that would pair cops with clinicians 24 hours a day. According […]
WHAT: A discussion about mental and addiction health issues – from a political perspective. WHO: Jeff Cogen, Multnomah County Commission Chair, and members of the Portland Police Bureau WHEN: December 13, 2011, 6:30 – 8:00 PM Join this event on Facebook Download a poster for this event. WHERE: Kempton Hall, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW […]
From KGW.com, September 13, 2011 READ – Multnomah County’s Mental Health Services Expected to be Largely Preserved, Sept 8, 2011, The Lund Report The story below is several news cycles behind. Maybe KGW outsources its reporting, or their subscription to The Lund Report has lapsed. Or who cares? And the photo attached to this story […]
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