From The Oregonian, November 25, 2007 – not available elsewhere online Oregon lawmakers said Monday that they’re determined to fix problems with the state’s oversight of psychiatric medications given to children in foster care. Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said the Legislature will hold hearings when lawmakers reconvene in February to examine how well […]
From The Oregonian, November 25, 2007 Oregon’s children – More than a fourth in state care get psychiatric drugs, with little training, oversight or review An Albany foster mother recalls a 5-year-old boy medicated so heavily that he lived in an endless cycle of sleeping, rising for a meal, taking his pills and collapsing back […]
From The Oregonian, November 25, 2007 – not elsewhere online Many of the adults responsible for children in foster care don’t know about Oregon’s Bobby Jackson law. Jean Ettel, Bobby’s first-grade teacher at Willard Elementary, says she remembers 7-year-old Bobby as a well-behaved boy who was small for his age. Bobby still had his baby […]
From the Oregonian – Sunday, November 25, 2007 – no link available. An Albany foster mother recalls a 5-year-old boy medicated so heavily that he lived in an endless cycle of sleeping, rising for a meal, taking his pills and collapsing back into bed. A Salem nurse who volunteered at a camp for Northwest foster […]
Portland Mercury, November 21, 2007 – County Chair Ted Wheeler has accepted an invitation by mental health activists to attend a public meeting to discuss his apparent failure, so far, to prioritize a sub-acute facility for the mentally ill in Portland. Wheeler told the Mercury at the end of last month he might not secure […]
Chair Ted Wheeler Multnomah County Board of County Commissioners 501 SE Hawthorne, Suite 600 Portland, OR 97214 SENT BY REGISTERED LETTER, EMAIL AND POSTED ON OUR WEB SITE 11/16/07 Dear Ted, This letter is a formal and public invitation to attend a public meeting to discuss the decision of the County Commission on October 3 […]
From The Portland Business Journal, November 11, 2007 Portland Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program PC serves about 300 patients annually Mental health issues made work a torturous event for attorney Melissa Turner. She felt ravaged by stress and feelings of inadequacy. She frequently missed deadlines and failed to maintain appropriate boundaries with co-workers and clients. She […]
From the Oregonian, November 10, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. Leo Besner, the Portland police officer at the center of a $500,000 city settlement with the family of a man he shot in 2005, was involved in another shooting six years earlier. When the settlement was announced Thursday, Robert J. King, the president of the […]
From the Oregonian, November 9, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. The city of Portland is set to pay a record $500,000 settlement in connection with a 2005 fatal shooting in which a 30-year-old college student was shot in the back by a Portland Police Bureau sniper following a 90-minute armed standoff. Any settlement more than […]
From The Oregonian, November 7, 2007 – not available online As Joshua Shane Overstreet was booked into jail on a heroin count, the warning signs quickly added up. The 18-year-old told jail staff that he had been diagnosed with suicidal depression. His mother, when contacted by telephone, warned that Overstreet was unstable, a danger to […]
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