July 2001 – Mental Health PDX

County plans mobile services, walk-in clinics

July 31, 2001

From The Oregonian, July 31, 2001 With the closing of the Crisis Triage Center, Multnomah County must rely on a fledgling patchwork of services to keep mental patients from jamming hospital emergency rooms. Two key “patches” in that quilt are neighborhood walk-in clinics and mobile crisis response teams aimed at solving mental health problems before […]

Numbers confirm crisis in mental health

July 20, 2001

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From the Oregonian, July 20, 2001 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners got its first detailed look Thursday at the numbers behind the county’s mental health system crisis — and the proposed redesign for dealing with it. The board is scheduled to vote Aug. 9 on the so-called Gap Plan to deal with the imminent […]