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Month: December 2008

Clackamas County loses low-income health clinic

December 31, 2008
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From the Oregonian, December 31 2008 Another site, in Molalla, shut just six months ago Low-income Clackamas County residents will have a harder time getting health care now that another clinic is closing. The closure of the Sandy clinic today comes six months after the county closed the health clinic in Molalla. The county plans […]

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Twin brothers face charges in assaults on homeless

December 29, 2008
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From the Oregonian, December 27 2008 On Portland’s streets, police say, James and Michael Johnson are known as the “Twin Towers” because the brawny brothers are always together and the sight of them strikes terror among the homeless. Police said they have linked the 32-year-old twins to five unprovoked assaults against transients, all at Colonel […]

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Riverside closes children’s day treatment center

December 28, 2008
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From the Roseburg News Register, December 23 2008 Winston, Oregon – After more than 20 years of providing mental health services to Douglas County children, the Riverside Center will halt its day treatment program next month. As of Jan. 30, the center will offer only a few small therapeutic outpatient groups, sending 16 students in […]

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Gifts set for Oregon State Hospital patients

December 28, 2008
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From the Salem Statesman Journal, December 24 2008 Volunteers wrap donated presents, to be delivered on Christmas Day Santa’s workshop runs on magic, but the gift-giving program at the Oregon State Hospital may operate with something just as good — efficiency. “It’s a huge assembly line,” said Jeff Jessel, the director of volunteer services at […]

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In Memoriam: Bettie Page

December 26, 2008
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Pinup model Bettie Page died December 11, 2008 at age 85 after her family agreed to discontinue life support. She had been in a coma after a heart attack a week earlier. Page had a long, well-documented and inconsistent career, marked by an ebullient personality, a wide variety of interests, husbands and new starts. She […]

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Garlington Center’s rough year

December 26, 2008
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From the Portland Observer, December 2008 In the early 90s, Ryan Hamit had a “bad spell” and ended up in a hospital struggling with a personality disorder. He bounced from various social service agencies and hospitals, encountering counselors that talked down to him and seemed to make problems worse. Things got better when he started […]

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Oregon mental patients isolated for years despite laws

December 25, 2008
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From the AP wire service, December 23 2008 Mental patients sprinkled throughout the nation’s psychiatric hospitals are being locked up alone for years despite laws aimed at preventing the practice, because medical workers say they’re too dangerous to handle any other way. Health officials call them outliers — rare, unpredictably violent people who don’t respond […]

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County Changes Policy Of Sending Juveniles To Adult Jails

December 25, 2008
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From OPB.org, December 18, 2008 LISTEN – County Changes Policy Of Sending Juveniles To Adult Jails Multnomah County Commissioners voted Thursday to stop sending juveniles to adult jails. Instances of suicide and sexual abuse around the nation are prompting many jurisdictions to make similar changes. With the wave of ‘get-tough-on-crime’ legislation in the 1990s, teenagers […]

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Social Service Resource Lists

December 24, 2008
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Knowledge is power – or translated for people with low and no income, knowledge + a voucher can get you a step further. The truth is there are thousands deeply involved in helping people with low and no income, including those struggling with addiction and mental illness. Yet no well-designed, integrated, communicative tool systematizes this […]

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Report shows rise in Portland homelessness

December 24, 2008
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From the Portland Tribune, December 18 2008 Report shows rise in homelessness – Successes shown by city’s ten-year plan appear to lose ground For the past two years, city officials have announced with pride that their 10-year plan to end homelessness was working. An annual one-night count of the homeless showed there were fewer people […]

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