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From The Skanner, March 31, 2010. Guest opinion by Jason Renaud. The board of the Mental Health Association of Portland do not endorse the tactics taken Monday evening by protesters in the streets of downtown Portland. We don’t endorse violence in any form – verbal or physical, active or threatened, against persons or property. Simply […]
Meditation Practice Day – Zen Peacemaker Circle for People With Extreme States / Experience of Psychosis – Everyone Welcome Join Ed Daigu Knight and Will Hall for a day of sitting and walking meditation and contemplation practice — especially for people who have had extreme states of consciousness diagnosed as psychosis, bipolar, schizophrenia, and other labels. […]
Join the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice & Police Reform at Portland’s City Hall tonight at 6 PM to speak to City Council. City Hall – 1221 SW 4th Avenue. Download and distribute this poster.
Just 11 days before he was killed by a Portland police officer, Jack Dale Collins, 58, walked into a police station and asked for mental health care, according to a police report. Police say the shooting was justified, but many Portlanders are questioning Officer Jason Walters’ decision to use deadly force, and hundreds of self-proclaimed […]
Published in The Skanner, March 31, 2010 The board of the Mental Health Association of Portland do not endorse the tactics taken this evening by protesters in the streets of downtown Portland. We don’t endorse violence in any form – verbal or physical, active or threatened, against persons or property. Simply being young, frustrated, over-educated […]
From the Eugene Register-Guard, March 27, 2010 A decline in lottery profits is leading to less help for addicts Maybe you’ve seen the TV ad: Three women are in the ladies’ room. One confides that she’s kicked a gambling addiction by seeking treatment. Another woman eavesdrops, realizes she needs help, too, and asks, “Can I […]
In this brief clip from the Salem Statesman-Journal, Oregon State Hospital’s superintendent Roy Orr says why his staff and policies are not responsible for the death of patient Moises Perez. Orr implies blame for the mental health system outside of the hospital for failing to serve prospective patients, and attempts to reframe the committees concern […]
Jack Dale Collins, known to his friends as Jackie, was a late-stage alcoholic who also was known to cut himself on the arms and face. This cutting is sometimes a symptom of a mental illness, possible one of many, including trauma disorders, psychotic disorders, depression or personality disorders. Jack lived in Portland for several years […]
It may be months or years, if ever, before we learn what happened at the Hoyt Arboretum on March 22, 2010. Remember – the key witness is Jason Walters, a veteran police officer, but also the shooter and therefore an extremely biased witness to a potential crime. And remember – many of the reported facts […]
Roy Orr apologizes to the advisory board in the wake of an undisclosed federal critique of care preceding a patient’s Oct. 17 death From the Salem Statesman Journal, March 19, 2010 Oregon State Hospital Superintendent Roy Orr apologized Thursday to the hospital’s advisory board, saying he was “personally remiss” in failing to notify board members […]
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