Public Screening of “Hearing Voices” Documentary and Discussion of New Educational Project Tuesday, March 31 2009 6 – 7:45 PM Downtown Multnomah County Public Library meeting room 801 S.W. 10th Avenue @ Yamhill Portland, Oregon Contact: Portland Hearing Voices portlandhearingvoices@gmail.com 413-210-2803 On Tuesday, March 31 2009 at 6 PM the hour-long BBC documentary video A […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, March 30 2009 Orr feels great about first year at hospital – Goals for state’s major psychiatric facility on track A year after he took the reins of the embattled Oregon State Hospital, Superintendent Roy Orr touts sweeping changes at the 126-year-old psychiatric facility. “I feel great about our first […]
From the Oregonian, March 24 2009 The Portland Police Bureau today released the names of people arrested during an undercover enforcement operation at what has been described as the city’s ground zero for street drug dealing. As reported in The Oregonian, Portland’s Street Crimes Unit and Neighborhood Response Team officers began making arrests five weeks […]
From Disability Rights Oregon, March 27 2009 On March 19, Senator Alan Bates and Representative Tina Kotek, co-chairs of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Services (DHS), released a memorandum entitled: System Reform for Mental Health and Addiction Services. The memo stated that in order to maximize the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of Oregon’s […]
From the Oregonian, March 22 2009, by Andy Dworkin The first time diabetes landed Richard Perez in Providence Portland Medical Center, the homeless man was discharged with little more than a bottle of pills and a bus pass. “You’re putting me out just to the streets, and I’m having all these meds, carrying them around […]
“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking 3 25 2009 in Mexico City. We’ve survived, over the decades, several rearrangements of payment-for-services from the feds to the state to the counties to the providers to their staff for persons with mental illness and addiction. Most rearrangements, […]
From the film One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, filmed at the Oregon State Hospital in 1973.
From the Salem Statesman Journal, March 21 2009 Oregon may be forced to hire hundreds amid budget crisis Despite dramatic improvements in patient care during the past year, Oregon State Hospital still faces a potential federal lawsuit that could place it under court control, hospital superintendent Roy Orr told legislators Thursday. “The threat of a […]
From the Catholic Sentinel, March 19 2009 This parishioner would wash her doughnuts in the baptismal font. She camped overnight outside the church doors and added words to the liturgical responses in a loud voice. She stole things. One Christmas, just when other members of the Downtown Chapel in Portland were getting fed up, the […]
From the Guardian, March 20 2009 Clutching a photograph of her son, Andrew Hanlon, and choking back the tears, Dorothea Carroll told the waiting media gathered outside Dublin County Coroner’s Court that she often thinks about her son lying in a pool of blood dying and wishes she could have been with him. “There’s no […]
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