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Gresham Outlook, Sept. 19, 2014 Kids who have a mental health crisis get critical help through Albertina Kerr Centers, and the need is great. The nonprofit organization’s campus at Northeast 162nd Avenue and Glisan Street serves a vital function by providing emergency psychiatric care for children. It is safe, temporary housing and treatment for kids […]
The Washington Times, August 30, 2014 About 250 works of art – some digital, some recycled, some graffiti and some unfinished – hang on the walls of the Life Track Art Gallery and Youth Center in downtown Medford, while another 120 pieces are tucked away in closets, drawers and wooden trunks just waiting to be […]
Portland Tribune, August 27, 2014Quick. What do you do? Your sister is cooking and cuts a deep gouge in her arm on accident. If you’re like many people, you’ve been trained in First Aid: You assess the situation, get someone to call for professional help and start patching her up with a nearby kit as […]
Part One, Corvallis Gazette-Times, Feb. 02, 2014 Rep. Sara Gelser fully supports the theory of “upstream prevention,” the idea that the best way to fix a problem is to never let it start. But when it comes to youth suicide, the Corvallis Democrat doesn’t want to leave all state resources upstream. Not with 2012 statistics […]
Excellent article by Oregonian newcomer Amanda Waldroupe, published October 20, 2010 Aja Stacy, 14, loves school so much, she would crawl to get there if she had to, she says. A bubbly and headstrong freshman at Troutdale’s Reynolds High School, Aja is enrolled in all honors classes and plays oboe for the school band. In […]
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