Mental Health Association of Portland – Oregon's impartial & Independent advocate
In 2011, a team of Texas consultants hired by the Oregon Lottery visited dozens of Portland-area bars, restaurants and “delis” with video slot and poker machines to ask hundreds of patrons about their gambling habits. What they found is the exact opposite of the fun-loving image the lottery has cultivated for years. The biggest chunk […]
Do you know someone who receives SNAP benefits or has a child in Healthy Kids? Please share this important flyer with them. Less than 1/3 eligible Fast Track enrollees in the Tri-County area have signed up for the Oregon Health Plan. Help Oregonians in our community get the health care they need! READ – Get […]
Posted on YouTube Nov 21, 2013 From the description on YouTube: Last year, deputies responded to over 400 mental-health related calls, and about 30 percent of offenders booked at our Jail suffer from some sort of mental illness. This video explores Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) — a mandatory program that teaches law-enforcement personnel the safest […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Nov. 21, 2013 Portland Police Officer Dane Reister, fired last month for mistakenly loading lethal buckshot into a beanbag shotgun and critically wounding a man two years ago, was never certified to carry the gun — one of a handful of officers who carried beanbag guns on patrol for years […]
By Les Zaitz, The Oregonian, Nov. 20, 2013 Oregon’s prison system is gearing up to send inmates out the door with health insurance, dramatically expanding the number covered for medical and mental health needs. Thousands of inmates and parolees will be eligible for government-paid health insurance for the first time after Jan. 1. Authorities estimate […]
By Sara Roth, KGW News, Nov. 18, 2013 Portland police tased a man armed with knives who was reportedly threatening shoppers and stealing at Whole Foods in Northwest Portland Friday. Officers recognized him from prior mental health incidents. The incident happened at Whole Foods at 1210 NW Couch St. around 8:30 a.m. Friday, according to […]
By Israel Bayer, Executive Director, Street Roots, Nov. 15, 2013 Ending homelessness in downtown Portland and throughout our community can feel impossible at times. The lack of employment and living wage jobs, a foreclosure crisis, mental health, addiction, returning war veterans, an overwhelmed foster care and health care system, domestic violence, human trafficking, addiction, all […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, Nov. 15, 2013 The most recent quarterly report from the police bureau on how its officers use force—and against whom—offers some cause for concern in the wake of news last week that the city and Portland Police Association had found relative peace over federal reforms. For reasons still unknown, […]
Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival 2013 Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse Reviewed by Andrew Parker, DorkShelf.com, Nov. 10, 2013 An incendiary look into a case of police brutality, Brian Lindstrom’s look at one man [with schizophrenia and his] undignified and completely preventable death might be the heaviest film in this year’s […]
Escape Fire – December 5, 2013 – Bijou Art Cinemas – 6:00 PM Screening – in Eugene WATCH – Escape Fire trailer ESCAPE FIRE examines the powerful forces maintaining the status quo, a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring […]
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