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The Bend Bulletin, April 30, 2015 Back to the drawing board for mental health advocates in Oregon. State Medicaid programs have struggled for years to tackle the high and often inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic — mental health — drugs to clients, who tend to experience higher rates of mental health conditions than the general population. […]
The Lund Report, August 4, 2014 Beginning this month, Douglas County will join at least 12 other Oregon counties and two cities in establishing a mental health court to divert the mentally ill away from jail and into needed healthcare services. It took half a dozen years after a local judge started pushing for its […]
The Lund Report, April 8, 2014 Portland Police Lt. Cliff Bacigalupi was a seasoned street cop when his police chief asked him to head up a new unit designed to address an unintended but growing part of the police force’s scope of practice — performing triage on the high number of people with mental illness […]
KGW.com, May 14, 2014 With the help of a virtual reality machine, Portland’s Adventist Medical Center is teaching employees what it’s like to [have schizophrenia]. “We believe they need to have a better understanding of mental illness so they can provide better care,” said Dr. John Custer. The machine mimics the mind of a schizophrenic […]
From The Columbian, February 23, 2014 A retired Episcopalian priest who moved to Vancouver from Columbus, Ohio, a dozen years ago, Don Greenwood has found a second calling. Greenwood, the parent of a son with a mental illness, has become a successful advocate for mentally ill inmates in Clark County. Pushing for change in a […]
The Portland Mercury, Feb. 19, 2014 It was billed as a signature piece of a proposed legal settlement meant to answer federal accusations that Portland police officers engage “in a pattern or practice” of using excessive force against people in mental-health crisis. READ – Our spoken testimony at the Fairness Hearing READ – Our written testimony […]
From the Argus Observer August 23, 2013 “Walking on eggshells” is how Michelle and Jose Acosta describe how they spent much of their son’s childhood. He struggled with behavioral problems beginning at age 10, and at age 18, he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder with bipolar tendencies. “We had been told that parenting for behavioral […]
By Bruce Horovitz, USA Today, April 12, 2013 McDonald’s is not lovin’ it. Following consumer complaints, a regional ad for its Big Mac that parodies mental illness — featuring a familiar photo of a woman who appears to be crying with her head in her hand — has been yanked by the fast-food giant from […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 9, 2013 Portland police have selected about 50 officers who volunteered to be part of a new specialized unit to respond to mental health crisis calls. The new unit is one of the initiatives that federal justice investigators last year urged the bureau to adopt to improve police encounters […]
By Bethany Halford, Chemical & Engineering News, March 25, 2013 When something goes wrong with the inner workings of the body, we call it a disease. When things go awry in the mind’s fine machinery, we call it madness. Risdon Slate knows all about that. It has been more than 25 years since the events […]
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