Here are the four current projects of the Mental Health Association of Portland.
Oregon Housing Conference
December 1 & 2, 2020 – on Homelessness and COVID
Virtual and online in December 2020, the Oregon Housing Conference will focus on Homelessness and COVID with five municipal case studies – Phoenix, Las Vegas, Portland, Los Angeles.
Get information and get registered for this conference at the Oregon Housing Conference website.
The Oregon Housing Conference is an interdisciplinary gathering of property owners and housing developers, lawmakers and public administrators, public health, law enforcement and community leaders, tenants and neighbors to discuss the ongoing Oregon housing crisis. The goal of the conference is to educate the community and increase opportunities for low income housing in Oregon, with a special interest in housing for people in recovery from mental illness and addiction.
Northwest Law & Mental Health Conference
The next Northwest Law & Mental Health Conference will be announced in May 2021.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ordered no events over 250 persons to be held in Oregon on Friday, March 13 , and later expanded her Stay At Home order. This required we postpone the Northwest Law & Mental Health Conference – scheduled for March 13. The conference came fully online in May 2020 and closed at the end of July 2020.
Recorded sessions of the Northwest Law & Mental Health Conference are now available online and available for all persons to watch.
Continuing education credit for the conference through the Oregon State Bar, the Oregon Department of Public Standards and Safety Training, and the NASW Oregon was available to those who registered for the conference. Testing for NASW Oregon has concluded.
Stay safe, wear a mask, and vote everyone. Take care of your clients, patients, families and friends. We’ll see you again in Spring 2021.
Mental Health Alliance
Organizations and individuals who represent the interests of people with mental illness and have long participated in efforts to reduce police use of force used against people with mental illness joined together as a friend of the court in US DOJ v. City of Portland.
Organizational members of the Alliance include Portland Interfaith Clergy Resistance, Disability Rights Oregon, the Mental Health Association of Portland, and the Oregon Justice Resource Center.
Supporters of the Mental Health Alliance meet regularly to hear from invited speakers, discuss their advocacy and legal agenda, and prepare testimony for city, county, state, and Federal venues. To attend a meeting, send a message to info@mentalhealthportland.org.
Washington Recovery Services
Washington Recovery Services provides solutions to homelessness in Washington State.
The organization works closely with Oxford House and is actively seeking to purchase homes for people leaving homeless and gaining self-sufficiency through mutual support, employment, and recovery from alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness.