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Is the Oregon State Hospital No Longer Mired in Misery?

March 18, 2012
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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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Tri-County Metro-Area Consumer/Survivor/Peer Council Holds Its First Meeting

August 10, 2011
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On July 28th, 13 people who called themselves Peers, Consumers, or Survivors met at Mental Health America of Oregon to hold the first Tri-County meeting in twenty years (see ‘New Tri-County Metro-Area Consumer/Survivor Council Holds First Meeting on July 28’ for a little more background). We got to know each other a little, discussed some […]

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Oregon State Hospital: Budget and opponents throw up obstacles

March 20, 2011
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From the Eugene Register Guard, March 20, 2011 Plans to build a long-promised state psychiatric hospital in Junction City are facing more opposition than ever in the Legislature. The state budget shortfall, human rights concerns and scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice are among the reasons opponents want the state to cancel the project. […]

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MHAO opposes Senate Bill 594

March 2, 2011
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Oregon Senate Bill 594 would authorize county sheriff or municipal police chief to make community notification when person found guilty except for insanity of homicide or felony sex offense is conditionally released from state hospital. Further, it would require the Psychiatric Security Review Board to notify law enforcement officials having jurisdiction over location where person […]

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Mental Health, Church Groups Ask Chasse Cops: Quit

October 8, 2009
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From the Portland Mercury, October 8, 2009 “The late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King said we are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation,” said the Reverend Doctor Leroy Haynes, vice president of the Albina Ministerial Alliance this morning. “James P Chasse, Junior, who died […]

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Agencies to call for resignation of Portland officers involved in Chasse’s arrest

October 7, 2009
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From the Oregonian, October 7, 2009 Representatives of the Mental Health Association of Portland, along with three other agencies, tomorrow are scheduled to call for the resignation of the three officers who had contact with James P. Chasse Jr. before his death in police custody. Speakers from the Mental Health Association of Portland, along with […]

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Call for Voluntary Resignations October 8

October 2, 2009
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The Mental Health Association of Portland asks all persons concerned with civil society, with healthcare, with justice issues, and who care for the welfare of persons with mental illness, to join us on October 8 2009 and ask for the VOLUNTARY RESIGNATIONS of Portland police officers Kyle Nice, Christopher Humphreys and Bret Burton. All systems […]

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The Next Wave of Change: Mental Health, Addictions, and Primary Care Integration

September 20, 2009
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Mental Health America of Oregon Presents a Roundtable Dialogue The Next Wave of Change: Mental Health, Addictions, and Primary Care Integration Thursday, September 24, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM 501 SE Hawthorne, Portland Panelist – Richard L. Harris, MSW Interim Assistant Director for Addictions and Mental Health, Oregon State Department of Human Services Former Executive […]

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Opinion and response on OSH ‘treatment mall’

July 14, 2009
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The letter below was sent July 13 2009 by the board members of the Mental Health America of Oregon to the editors of the Salem Statesman Journal in response to an editorial written by Arthur Tolan, a staff member of the Oregon State Hospital. Dr. Tolan’s original opinion editorial is below. To the Editor of […]

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Should OHSU security officers carry guns?

December 7, 2008
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Opinion Editorial from the Portland Tribune, December 4, 2008 By Roy Silberstein, president of the Mental Health Association of Portland, and Beckie Child, president of Mental Health America of Oregon. An Oregon Health & Science University task force has determined the hospital is at risk for an armed assault by unknown assailants. This conclusion may […]

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