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Multnomah County Poor Farm admissions register index (transcribed). This file is a 500+ page 160 MB PDF so be patient; it will take a moment or so to download. The PDF is not searchable. Below is a snapshot of page one. Roughly 22,250 entries are listed in this document, people sentenced to live and labor […]
Multnomah County to ‘close out,’ revamp transitional home for Black women leaving prison after evaluator’s critical report From The Oregonian – February 1, 2021 Multnomah County plans to completely revamp its first transitional residential program for Black women leaving prison after a critical report described a climate of “fear and mistrust,” poor communication and the […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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) […]
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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