From the Seattle Weekly, September 24, 2013 UPDATE: Alien Boy won this festival on October 3. Just as the Seahawks draw fans from as far away as Anchorage and Missoula and Boise and even (gasp!) Portland, the Local Sightings Film Festival has become a regional showcase for cinema from the greater Northwest. Now in its […]
By Erica Felci, The Desert Sun, Sept. 28, 2013 When the Betty Ford Center outlined its vision for 2015, executives looked at international partnerships, an expanded children’s program and a groundbreaking educational institute for medical professionals. What wasn’t in the cards — the former first lady and her daughter, then-board chairwoman Susan Ford Bales, told […]
By Nigel Duara, The Associated Press, on WSB-TV2 Atlanta, Sept. 28, 2013 Six months ago, Ashley Slocki was on her husband’s employer-provided health insurance, and it came with dental, vision and low prescription co-pays. Slocki, now 27 and divorced, opened her mail one day in July to learn her so-called Cadillac plan was going away. […]
As we surmised, clinical staff from Rawson-Neal Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada bussed persons with mental illness to Oregon. According to records collected by the Sacramento Bee, 33 patients of Rawson-Neal were sent by bus to Oregon, 22 to Portland. According to testimony from some of these people taken by reporters in San Francisco and […]
With the resignation earlier this year of Mary Claire Buckley as director of the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) after a state investigation found she “regularly belittled, criticized, swore and screamed at employees, to the point that one woman confessed to crying for 45 minutes after an encounter”, the State of Oregon is now seeking […]
Join us for the Portland screening of “The Anonymous People”, a feature-length documentary about the New Recovery Advocacy Movement in the United States. The film will screen for only one night at Cinema 21. Sunday September 29th at 7 PM. Suggested donation is $10 at Cinema 21 Theater, 626 NW 21st Avenue. “The Anonymous People” […]
From the Medford Mail Tribune, September 26, 2013 Jackson County has received a federal grant designed to attack prescription drug addiction from several angles and reduce opiate abuse in the Rogue Valley. The grant of $393,575 will be used to help physicians more easily access information from the state’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program; develop protocols […]
From The Lund Report, September 24, 2016 While African-Americans are overrepresented in behavioral healthcare, they’re barely represented in policy positions – and mental health data for Asian-Americans in Oregon isn’t even tracked In Oregon, planning for diversity is like parsley on the plate, said April Johnson, behavioral health policy analyst for the state office of […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 25, 2013 To get a sense of how things are going at the Bud Clark Commons Community Court, check out its chairs. Each Friday afternoon, the docket for the court lists dozens of transient offenders accused of minor, quality-of-life-type offenses—things like drinking in public, urinating in public, smoking pot in […]
Op Ed by Deborah Kafoury, Multnomah County Commissioner, published in Street Roots, September 23, 2013 Last week, a young, frightened woman phoned my Multnomah County office looking for help. She was a mother, with three children, who needed housing. The family had been doubling up with a relative, but now that relative was moving out […]
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