Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate
First, some recent context! New, and sad -> Email from Derald Walker, CEO of Cascadia to all staff, June 5 2008 – Subject: Status Update From the Portland Mercury, May 30, 2008 – County Fucks Up Mental Health, Asks People With Mental Illness, “How Does it Feeeeel?” Email from Mary Monnat, CEO of LifeWorks to […]
From Willamette Week, May 27, 2008 A Portland State University student who’s been a persistent headache for local cops is back in action. Richard Prentice, 34, gave notice to the city last Friday that he intends to sue for $10,000 after police allegedly broke down his door without a warrant. “The whole apartment was shaking,” […]
In 1999, in the wake of the shuttering of Garlington Center, several public deaths of people with mental illness, and a distressing countywide site review by the state mental health division, a wide-open, concerted, public conversation about Portland’s mental health system was launched by County Chair Beverly Stein. The conversation became more complex as the […]
From the Portland Mercury, May 22, 2008 That was mental health advocate Marian Drake, addressing County Chair Ted Wheeler yesterday afternoon during a two-hour meeting to talk about the financial collapse of the county’s giant mental health-care provider, Cascadia. WHEELER: Met with mental health advocates yesterday… Since the financial problems hit, many of Cascadia’s clients […]
From the Portland Mercury, May 21, 2008 City’s Hazy Drug-Free Zone Replacement Program After several weeks researching the city’s $1.3 million per year replacement program for the now defunct Drug-Free Zones (DFZs), the [Portland] Mercury has been unable to find a clear and consistent written policy on the new program anywhere in Portland. The DFZs […]
From Mara Grunbaum of Street Roots, May 20, 2008 People on the streets organize to send a message to City Hall Most passing drivers just drove. Some honked and waved in solidarity. One yelled, “Get a job!” – to which one of the homeless protesters outside City Hall shouted back, “I have one, thank you!” […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 17, 2008 “Alien Boy,” a local documentary about a schizophrenic man who died in police custody in 2006 has been dragged into a legal tug-of-war between the victim’s family and the city of Portland. Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom has only just begun shooting the project, which focuses on the life […]
The future of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare may be decided next Tuesday at a meeting between the State Addictions and Mental Health Services Division, the Multnomah County Mental Health and Addiction Services Division, Cascadia and Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler. The Tuesday meeting is not open to the public. No public information about what’s happening with […]
Drug suspect shot himself, police say, Oregonian May 16 2008 A 43-year-old man fatally shot himself in the head Thursday after Portland police and federal agents raided his house and fired at least one shot as they tried to arrest him on federal drug charges, police said. Derek J. Coady was pronounced dead in the […]
May 15, 2008 Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan has announced the findings of his investigation into the fatal shooting of Refugio Cruz-Fuentes by a Bend Police detective earlier this month: lawful and justified. Detective Tom Brown, a 14-year veteran of the Bend Police Department who was assigned to the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement team […]
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