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From the Portland Business Journal, September 6, 1998 Efficiency and expanded services are the goal of three private nonprofit mental health providers in Multnomah County that have come together to form Unity Inc. The entities continue to do business under their old names–Mental Health Services West, Northeast Mental Health Services (Garlington Center) and Delaunay Family […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, September 8, 1996. Not available elsewhere online. Review these recent Portland scenes: 1. During Rose Festival, a woman was disrupting traffic, holding a baby doll, sucking her thumb and beating her head against trees, injuring herself. 2. He really thought he was Superman and would not […]
From the Oregonian, February 15, 1995 It’s a professional medical and social operation that will take mentally ill homeless people off downtown streets and treat them until they can live elsewhere. And it will renovate run-down property and benefit the neighborhood. No. It’s a misplaced, mistimed, unproven project that will leave out-of-control persons roaming Chinatown, […]
From the Oregonian, October 13, 1994 In his mind’s eye, as he gazes at the gray grime of Third and Flanders in Old Town, Bruce Wong sees the garden as clearly as if it were already there. Water-hewn rocks, unique and ornate, rim a rippleless pond. From one end rises a small building, its rooms […]
From The Oregonian, May 5, 1992 Mental health services in Multnomah County — which were decentralized a decade ago — should be centralized again. That’s the recommendation of a citizen task force that studied the county’s mental and emotional disabilities service system for nearly four months. County commissioners are expected to approve the recommendation at […]
Mind Games: Oregon’s Mental Health System Fourth of a five part series on the Oregon State Hospital From The Oregonian, October 26, 1987 – not available online elsewhere When Lois Gleason closed the door for the last time on her West Hills apartment this month, she headed downstairs to another crisis in her 11-year history […]
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