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Columbia River Mental Health Services suspends operations

March 26, 2025
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Columbia River Mental Health Services announced in March 2025 it was suspending most operations due to financial difficulties. For some amount of time, about 5000 people with mental illness and addiction were left without medical and social services and without guidance as to where to get services. PRESIDENT – Dimitry Makhanov, OneDigital VICE PRESIDENT – […]

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Oregon’s Peer Run Respite Grants – updated February 2025

September 16, 2024
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| Legislature, Mental Health

Peer respite has been an ideal in Portland since at least the opening of Outside In in 1968 to help teens who were “tripping” to “mellow out.” But government funders were wary if not in oppositional, so efforts always ended quickly. Peer respite is a fairly simple idea – a residential home designated as a […]

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Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services

August 24, 2024
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| Addiction, Legislature, Uncategorized

Updated July 29, 2024 During the 2023 Legislative Session, the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed House Bill 3610, which was then signed by the Governor. This bill initiated the creation of the Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services. The House Bill specifies that task force members shall: Study alcohol addiction and alcohol addiction prevention; Distribution of […]

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Oregon Health Authority fails to show results after spending millions, audit finds

August 23, 2024
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| Mental Health, Politics

Oregon Health Authority fails to show results after spending millions, audit finds – Oregon Capital Chronicle, August 12, 2024 Oregon Health Authority auditors call for stronger oversight of behavioral health incentive programs and better outreach to communities Starting in 2021, Oregon lawmakers gave tens of millions of dollars in funding to the Oregon Health Authority […]

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End of the Oregon Trail – Suicides 1894-1974

July 28, 2024
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End of the Oregon Trail – Suicides 1894-1974 (PDF) Rare monograph on the history of suicide in Oregon by OHSU researchers James Shore and Betty Arvidson, published in July 1977.      

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Juror criticizes Portland’s request to throw out negligence verdict after police shooting

July 13, 2024
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| Courts, Law Enforcement

From OPB.org, July 11 2024 In May, attorneys for the city of Portland asked a judge to throw out a jury verdict that held the city liable for a Portland police officer’s fatal shooting of a man suffering from a mental health crisis. The filing has prompted one juror in the case to go public. […]

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Oregon Substance Use Disorder Financial Analysis – 2023

May 29, 2024
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Oregon Health Authority Substance Use Disorder Financial Analysis (PDF – full report) Oregon Health Authority Substance Use Disorder Financial Analysis (PDF – Presentation) SUMMARY – In a budget note in HB 5006 (2021 regular session), the Oregon State Legislature directed the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to analyze the adequacy of behavioral health structures in the […]

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Portland calls for retrial after jurors find city liable in fatal police shooting

May 24, 2024
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By OPB.org – May 21, 2024 The recent court filings revolve around different interpretations of Oregon’s relatively new laws governing police use of deadly force Attorneys for the city of Portland have asked a Multnomah County judge to overrule a jury’s roughly $1 million negligence verdict after a Portland officer shot and killed a man […]

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Oregon inventory of services for co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, 2022

May 24, 2024
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READ – Oregon inventory of services for cooccurring substance use and mental health disorders – for 2022, made available December 2023 In Oregon and nationally, a substantial proportion of clients in treatment for substance use disorders also have a mental health disorder. According to the 2022 National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS), […]

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Q & A with Chelsea Holcomb: Oregon’s director of youth behavioral health

May 13, 2024
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Posted in The Oregonian – May. 13, 2024 Oregon ranks dead last in balancing the prevalence of youth mental illness with access to care, given high rates of youth with mental health conditions and the lack of available treatment, according to advocacy and monitoring nonprofit Mental Health America. At 21%, the state has the highest […]

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