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Judy Ann Parker and Eugene’s Missing Mentally Ill

May 31, 2020
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“Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them — will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard […]

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Vancouver Navigation Center in limbo due to virus

May 26, 2020
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Columbian – May 26, 2020Columbian – May 26, 2020 When COVID-19 hit, the Vancouver Navigation Center had just been getting back on track. The city-owned day shelter for people without homes had been through a thorny couple of months. It had been left without a designated operator; the previous organization, the nonprofit Share, had dropped […]

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Fired manager, two ex-employees of Bridges to Change’s Diane Wade House file discrimination suit, seeking $2 million in damages

April 24, 2020
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From the Oregonian April 24, 2020 Three African American women who helped run Multnomah County’s first transitional housing program for black women returning to the community after prison are suing their former employer, Bridges to Change, alleging racial discrimination. O’Nesha Cochran, who was fired last spring as program manager of the new Diane Wade House, […]

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Multnomah managers blamed shortage on cut that didn’t exist

December 5, 2019
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Portland Tribune, December 04, 2019 County audit says public, board were misled: Questionable management to blame for 2017 budget request, not state It was an ugly situation that almost never became public. Cold winter winds were approaching, and decisions made by Multnomah County mental health managers were about to cause 45 to 50 severely mentally […]

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Solve Homelessness or Go Golf

November 18, 2019
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Two initial positions.  Most people who are chronically homeless became homeless as a direct result of untreated alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness. Rehousing them prior to remission is a set up for repeat failure. Those persons overwhelm the homeless service system which wasn’t designed to help them, and routinely rejects their needs. Equally, treatment providers […]

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Academic Papers on Psychiatric Boarding

November 17, 2018
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Crowding, Boarding, and Patient Throughput (PDF) Position Statement from the Emergency Nurses Association with massive bibliography December 2017 Emergency Department Boarding of Psychiatric Patients in Oregon (PDF) Oregon Health Authority – no author listed February 1, 2017 Psychiatric Boarding in the Pediatric Inpatient Medical Setting: A Retrospective Analysis Katherine A.S. Gallagher, PhD, I. Simona Bujoreanu, […]

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Helping homeless is marathon, not sprint

August 15, 2018
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OP – ED published in the Portland Tribune, August 14, 2018 Author Dean Gisvold is a Portland attorney, a board member emeritus of Central City Concern, a board member of Network for Affordable Housing (NOAH); reach him at dpgisvold AT gmail.com. Recent articles in the Portland Tribune and emails from the Portland Police Association (PPA) […]

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Royal Palm building’s closure presents housing quandary

October 18, 2017
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From the Portland Tribune, October 18, 2017 Cascadia forced to board up rundown facility used for transitional services in Old Town/Chinatown. The Royal Palm Hotel building at 310 N.W. Flanders St., in Old Town/Chinatown, has had many uses during its 104 years. From being one of Portland’s first facilities to employ and accept African-American guests […]

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Successfully connecting people affected by opioid use to housing: Central City Concern

March 19, 2017
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by USICH and Rachel Post, Public Policy Director at Central City Concern March 22, 2017 USICH’s recent brief, Strategies to Address the Intersection of the Opioid Crisis and Homelessness, was developed in partnership with our federal interagency working group focused on this issue. Among its strategies, the brief identified the importance of removing barriers to […]

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Deaths on the streets in Portland – Winter 2016/2017 (updated = 5)

January 16, 2017
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UNKNOWN, infant – born to mother with mental illness Karen Batts, 52 – person with mental illness Zachary Young, 29 – person with mental illness David Guyot, 68 – unknown Mark Johnson, 51 – person with alcoholism A Baby is Dead After Being Found With His Homeless Mother at a Portland Bus Stop – The […]

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