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From the Portland Tribune, February 17, 2016 New mental health crisis response unit building relationships with people with mental illnesses before they have a crisis In Newberg-Dundee Police Department Sgt. Mark Cooke’s experience, when it’s deemed that someone struggling with mental illness must be committed to a hospital for observation and evaluation, a lot of […]
Mental illness on the streets – East Oregonian, February 5, 2016 At one time the nation’s most severely mentally ill were locked up in mental hospitals, often against their will. Now they wander our streets. That’s how it seems to many law enforcement officers these days as they spend more and more of their time […]
Curry County Pilot, December 11, 2015 Local law enforcement officials plan to keep their existing protocol when responding to calls concerning people with possible mental illnesses and take them to the emergency room in Gold Beach which will soon no longer have a “hold room” in which to stabilize them. With the closure of the […]
From the Wallowa Chieftan, June 11, 2014 Eastern Oregon is not immune to the dangers of mental illness. But it does have a dearth of mental health professionals. And that can exacerbate the problem — when people in need don’t seek help and there aren’t enough professionals available to serve those who do. For example, […]
From AP.com, December 15, 2013 As the state of Oregon prepares to close a mental hospital in Pendleton, a new cluster of mental health facilities is emerging nearby. READ – Pendleton Lawmakers Try To Keep Blue Mountain Hospital Open Crews are remodeling a former training center for people with developmental disabilities. Once complete, it will […]
From the Medford Mail Tribune, September 26, 2013 Jackson County has received a federal grant designed to attack prescription drug addiction from several angles and reduce opiate abuse in the Rogue Valley. The grant of $393,575 will be used to help physicians more easily access information from the state’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program; develop protocols […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 4, 2013 When the Klamath County commissioners decided to transfer the mental health department to a nonprofit, they did it because the county was no longer financially able to provide the service. But an equally important question needed to be asked: will Klamath Youth Development Center do a […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 3, 2013 Dannielle Brown worked for the Klamath County mental health department for nine years. Now she is an employee of Klamath Youth Development Center, the nonprofit the county handed the department over to. She is the residential program supervisor of Phoenix Place, the only respite and residential […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 1, 2013 Though from the outside the process seemed sudden, boiling into a difficult situation within weeks, the county commissioners had an inkling of the direction they were headed before they sent a letter to the Oregon Health Authority on June 14 saying the county wanted out of […]
From the Dallas Chronicle, August 1, 2013 Last week we published a letter to the editor, titled “Send them on,” (see below) from a community member who complained about the “homeless, transients and panhandlers” in our town and asked why we don’t send them to another city. The letter elicited a spirited discussion on our […]
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