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Definitely the best cover of Wipers “Alien Boy” is by the mid-nineties Olympia-Portland band Calamity Jane. The song “Alien Boy” was written by Greg Sage in about 1979 about James Chasse, a person with a mental illness who in 2006 was killed by three Portland police officers.
The Oregonian, Dec. 30, 2015 Less than a month after two state agencies released letters detailing serious complaints against Youth Villages Oregon, formerly known as ChristieCare, the organization announced plans to close its Lake Oswego residential facility. Called the Christie Campus, the facility provides mental health treatment for children ages 6 through 17 who “have serious […]
The Oregonian, Oct. 9, 2015 This video shows seclusion cells used in the Portland Public School District prior to lawmakers’ 2012 intervention, which produced a set of rules prescribing insignificant changes. The much-ballyhooed “improvements” did not forbid seclusion, and the laws were so flimsy they allowed, the following year, the imprisonment of a terrified 7-year-old […]
Statesman Journal, May 8, 2014 One out of eight children in Oregon experience significant mental or behavioral health challenges. It’s more common than childhood asthma, yet the families who face it rarely talk about the devastating impact it can have. But for one day these families and youth share their stories at Children’s Mental Health […]
By Christopher David Gray, The Lund Report, March 5, 2013 A pathway has appeared to the game-changing funding levels that Senate President Peter Courtney signaled for community mental health — at least for children – when the increased funding made a list of priorities when the co-chairs released their two-year spending plan Monday morning. Courtney’s […]
The OHSU Department of Psychiatry would like to invite to Grand Rounds taking place this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from noon – 1pm in conference room 8B60 (8th floor) of the main hospital. Perspectives on Integrated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care in Oregon Tan Ngo, M.D., PGY-5 Psychiatry Fellow, Department of Psychiatry/OHSU At the end of this […]
Editor’s Note: First Person Singular showcases personal stories related to mental health. Contributions via email are welcome though we don’t guarantee we’ll use every submission. The following is a true story, in the form of creative non-fiction. And yes, we do know it is not written in first person singular. We think it fits just […]
By Amy Wang, The Oregonian, Jan. 12, 2013 A study of more than 6,000 U.S. teens and their parents, published last week in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, found that most adolescents who consider or try suicide have received some mental health treatment, according to The New York Times. READ – “Study Questions Effectiveness of Therapy […]
From The Corvallis Gazette Times, November 27, 2011 It was supposed to cost $4.5 million to renovate Old School at the Children’s Farm Home on Highway 20 between Albany and Corvallis, but an unanticipated septic system upgrade has bumped the cost up another million. Now Trillium Family Services, which operates the Farm Home as a […]
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