from the Portland Mercury, January 24, 2008 County Boss Soul Searches on Mental Health Center County Chair Ted Wheeler met with 60 mental health advocates last week to confess his disappointment over the county’s ongoing failure to reopen Portland’s sub-acute facility for people in mental health crisis. Since the closure of the crisis triage center […]
Finding Normal, a documentary film by Brian Lindstrom, will be shown at City Hall on Friday, February 1 at 1 PM. The showing is free. Coming straight out of prison or detox, recovering addicts struggle to stay clean and sober in the city of Portland. Thanks to the Recovery Mentor program of Central City Concern, […]
From AP.com, January 16 2008 The U.S. Department of Justice has found numerous civil rights violations of patients at the Oregon State Hospital. In a report released Wednesday, federal investigators listed inadequate conditions and practices at the mental hospital ranging from life-threatening use of restraints to widespread patient-on-patient assault. Federal law entitles patients to certain […]
Oregonian – January 16, 2008 – not available elsewhere online. One inmate was so intent on killing himself that a Multnomah County sheriff’s deputy watched him every minute of every day for his safety, a monthlong effort that cost the jail about $40,000 in extra staffing. Another inmate nicknamed “Jimmy the Jumper” twice plunged off […]
Multnomah County Commission Chair Ted Wheeler has agreed to speak at an open public meeting about County mental health services, and about his decision to vote against a proposal to create a psychiatric emergency center. The creation of such a center was a key recommendation of the Mental Health / Public Safety Initiative launched by […]
From Salem Statesman Journal, December 22, 2008 Three Oregon Youth Authority staff members sustained minor injuries during an escape attempt by eight girls at Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility in Albany early Sunday. The girls, armed with homemade weapons, attacked the staff members and overpowered them shortly after midnight, authority spokeswoman Perrin Damon said. The […]
From the Portland Mercury, December 23, 2008 Officer Pandora’s Boxes – Attorneys Want Cop’s Secret List Documents Attorneys for three people believed to be on Portland’s controversial secret list of downtown offenders are in a legal fight with the city to turn over the contents of 20 cardboard boxes containing information about the secret list […]
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