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The Skanner, Feb. 25, 2016 Join activists and candidates for mayor of Portland at 6:30 p.m. March 10 for a public conversation about the social justice issues in Portland. Jules Bailey – candidate for mayor Israel Bayer – Street Roots Jo Ann Hardesty – NAACP – Portland Branch Sarah Iannarone – candidate for mayor Jason […]
The Oregonian, Feb. 27, 2016 An Oak Grove teen fatally shot by Clackamas County deputies during an apparent mental health crisis at his apartment last month told authorities that he was going to die that day, court documents say. About ninety minutes before Christopher Kalonji, 19, was to appear for a 9 a.m. hearing in Multnomah […]
From the Portland Tribune, February 17, 2016 New mental health crisis response unit building relationships with people with mental illnesses before they have a crisis In Newberg-Dundee Police Department Sgt. Mark Cooke’s experience, when it’s deemed that someone struggling with mental illness must be committed to a hospital for observation and evaluation, a lot of […]
Our response to – Bill preventing release of grand jury transcripts in police shootings draws ire, The Oregonian, February 19, 2016 ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Mental Health Association of Portland Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:07 PM Subject: opposition to SB 1550 To: Sen.FloydProzanski @ state.or.us Please add our organization to the list […]
Statesman Journal Editorial Board, February 17, 2016 Wednesday brought mourning to the Oregon Senate. No bills were passed. No floor speeches were made. For much of the day, no inflammatory press releases were issued. Family trumped politics. Family trumped partisanship. As family always should. Sen. Brian and Peggy Boquist had lost their oldest child, Seth […]
From Psychiatric Services, February 2016 Joseph Chien, D.O., David Novosad, M.D., Karl E. Mobbs, M.D. This column describes the conceptualization and implementation of an innovative collaboration between Oregon State Hospital and Oregon Health and Science University that was created to address understaffing and improve the quality of care. The hospital created a forensic evaluation rotation […]
Eastern Oregon police chiefs see uptick of mentally ill on their streets – East Oregonian, February 8, 2016 At one time the nation’s most severely mentally ill were locked up in mental hospitals, often against their will. Now they wander our streets. That’s how it seems to many law enforcement officers these days as they […]
OPB News, Feb. 15, 2016 Curious Comedy’s team is usually going for laughs. But there’s nothing even remotely funny about the scenes they were acting out at the Hillsboro Police Department’s training facility recently. Two officers circle around the back of a mock apartment building. Inside the upstairs unit, someone is screaming at the top […]
Portland Tribune, Feb. 15, 2016 At the rain-and-tear-soaked funeral of 19-year-old Christopher Kalonji on Thursday, family and friends were able to gather and grieve the death of the 2014 Rex Putnam High School graduate. Not laid to rest, however, were the questions surrounding why he died from a gunshot wound following a mental health crisis […]
Former Miracles Director Sentenced Portland Observer, July 26, 2016 A former director at the Miracles Club has met his fate for the theft of $144,000 from the non-profit organization that serves Portland’s African American community. Herman Bryant, 59, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for embezzling the money over two years and then […]
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