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From the board of the Mental Health Association of Portland Recently the SAMHSA has begun requiring grantees to use the term behavioral health for a bucket of illnesses and disorders. It’s an inaccurate term which diminishes black-letter science-based public health decisions going back fifty years. The term appeared first in 1992 in the New York […]
Petition by Oregon Advocacy Program to the Oregon State Hospital, 1988 Seeking public records – Incident and/or abuse report documenting suicide investigation of named patient at OSH – denied. Petition by Anthony M. Chapman to the Oregon State Hospital, 1989 Seeking diagnostic records and reports pertaining to psychiatric treatment and counseling – granted. Petition by […]
Published in Street Roots, October 2020 Since Aaron Campbell’s death, at least 20 people with mental health or substance problems have been killed by Portland police. Say their names. Members of the Mental Health Alliance will vote YES on Portland City Ballot Measure 26-217 to form a new and empowered police review board and bring […]
This post documents the impact of COVID on the Oregon State Hospital. COVID arrived in Oregon March 2020. First OSH patient tests positive for COVID-19 OHA PRESS RELEASE Thursday, October 15, 2020 Oregon State Hospital is reporting its first patient to test positive for COVID-19. The patient began exhibiting symptoms Oct. 11 and was immediately […]
Portland Tribune October 13 2020 Trauma-informed design is one part of the new five floor center downtown opening in 2022 to help the chronically homeless. Some things don’t change in a recession: local government keeps spending and building as it addresses some of the worst crises Portland faces. In 2019, the Multnomah County board of […]
The Lund Report – September 2020 READ – Chronic and Systemic Issues in Oregon’s Mental Health Treatment System Leave Children and Their Families in Crisis (PDF) A 9-year-old boy waited in a hotel room for more than 100 days while waiting for mental health care. A 16-year-old girl with a history of sexual exploitation and […]
From the Lund Report, September 28, 2020 State and federal authorities have launched a new crackdown at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland following complaints that the psychiatric emergency hospital has failed yet again to keep fragile mental health patients safe. The latest list of issues is long: Sexual encounters in a bathroom. An […]
The Mental Health Association of Portland, one of Oregon’s most active advocates for people with mental illness, addiction, and alcoholism urges a NO vote on state Ballot Measure 110. The organization has never taken a position on a statewide ballot measure before. DOWNLOAD – the text of this opposition message (PDF) The ballot measure is […]
From the New York Review of Books, September 20, 2020 Eugene, Oregon—Every call that is dispatched through the radio, twenty-four hours a day, to the CAHOOTS crisis responders is a tiny mystery, a staticky, incomplete assemblage of details. “White female in her thirties, brown hair, black mid-length shirt, last seen on Sixth, yelling and running […]
As COVID-19 keeps some folks at home, grocery delivery and pickup should be available to people who receive food benefits Published in Street Roots, September 18, 2020 I’ve got a dilemma shared by thousands of poor, senior and disabled Oregonians. Like many Oregonians with a disability, I receive SNAP benefits. You may remember them as […]
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