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By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, May 2, 2013 Mayor Charlie Hales‘ bid to pull the city’s share of funding for Multnomah County’s Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center—a 16-bed facility billed as a resource for police officers—has clearly irked County Chairman Jeff Cogen and even raised questions from at least one city commissioner, Amanda Fritz. […]
Clients, alumni, staff, neighbors, donors and friends, please join us at a free Recovery Month event celebrating 40 years of Hooper! “Hooper” includes Hooper Detox Stabilization Center, the Sobering Station, CHIERS Monday, September 10, 2012 – 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Left Bank Annex – 101 N. Weidler, Portland Free, limited parking (100 spots) available […]
From Joanne Fuller, director of the Multnomah County Department of County Human Services, distributed June 26 2009 Multnomah County has been working to site, develop and fund a Crisis Treatment & Assessment Center (formally referred to as the sub acute mental health facility) for several years. This 16-bed secure facility would offer short-term mental health […]
From Street Roots, September 19 2008 If anything has become clear in the two years following the beating death of James Chasse by the hands of Portland police, it is that police officers need to know what to do when responding to a situation involving someone with a mental illness. Soon after Chasse’s death, Mayor […]
From OPB.org, September 4 2008 Several local health care providers are helping keep a regional detox center open — at least for the next two years. LISTEN to this report. A handful of local health care providers contributed six-hundred-thousand dollars to keep the sobering station at Hooper Detox in Portland operating. The center is operated […]
From The Oregonian, November 14, 1996 You can count Barb Sander among the tame and typical who have passed through the Hooper Detox Center. Tame because Sander who was treated for alcohol and drugs when she frequented Hooper in the early through mid-1980s, is a contrast to the sometimes more volatile heroin addicts now treated […]
From The Oregonian – March 14, 1988 Dennis clenched his hands into tight fists. His faced reddened as he spoke. “I can’t remember! I can’t remember anything!” With the help of two people, he was standing now. He had been lying on the floor inside the Burnside Projects shelter in Old Town when the call […]
From The Oregonian – February 15, 1988 Acupuncture treatments appear to have slashed the recidivism rates of alcoholics and drug addicts passing through Multnomah County detoxification programs in the last six months. Normally, 20 percent to 25 percent of those participating in the county’s alcohol and drug detox programs fail to complete them and return […]
From The Oregonian – November 28, 1987 There are fewer drunks lying on the street and the litter is picked up, everyone agrees, but beyond those points, there’s little consensus on how well Mayor Bud Clark‘s 12-point plan for the homeless is working. Nearly two years after the plan was unveiled, social service providers in […]
From The Oregonian, October 1, 1987 – by columnist Phil Stanford At the Old Town Market, on the corner of Northwest Third and Couch, the word is definitely Thunderbird. A pint (or more precisely, 375 milliliters) costs $1. That’s not much for wine, but it’s a lot for kerosene. The wholesale price for the same […]
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