The Chicago-based academic duo of Rosenbaum & Watson LLP, hired by Portland Mayor Charlie Hales to sort out whether the Portland Police Bureau is complying with the 180+ item settlement agreement resulting from U.S. v. City of Portland, flew into town May 28 to present their first quarterly report and introduce their new front-person, retired […]
Mental Health Association of Portland volunteer Jason Renaud’s appearance on The Five Quadrants of Portland with Jenn Chavez on XRAY.FM speaks about current events and the recent MHAP article in Street Roots Death by cop: Who’s at risk?, and their list of over 300 persons harmed by police in the Portland area since 1970. Renaud […]
The Bend Bulletin, April 30, 2015 Back to the drawing board for mental health advocates in Oregon. State Medicaid programs have struggled for years to tackle the high and often inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic — mental health — drugs to clients, who tend to experience higher rates of mental health conditions than the general population. […]
One outcome of the settlement agreement of U.S. v City of Portland is a contract for a Compliance Officer / Community Liaison to oversee the agreement and public engagement. After a poorly managed search, Mayor Charlie Hales hired Dennis Rosenbaum of the University of Illinois to be the “COCL.” Prior to hiring, Rosenbaum’s public review […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, May 25, 2015 John Forbes Nash, Jr., a mathematician who rode the line between genius and madness all the way to a Nobel Prize, died Saturday in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike at the age of 86, along with his wife, Alicia, 82. Nash developed […]
Dane Reister was a Portland police officer when, on June 30, 2011, he shot a 20-year-old man with bipolar disorder, William Kyle Monroe. Reister thought he was shooting beanbags, but he had mixed up his ammunition and shot Monroe with live rounds, causing serious and disabling injuries. For more information, click a tag: Dane Reister […]
The Oregonian, May 24, 2015 The woman and her 16-year-old daughter froze in fear. They were stuck in a traffic jam when a 6-foot-4 man dressed as an elf suddenly climbed onto their BMW, stabbed it with a sword and slashed its tires. The daughter frantically dialed 911. Other drivers at the Southeast Portland intersection […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, May 23, 2015 At Basic Rights Oregon and other gay rights organizations, they were breaking out the bubbly Thursday – the bubbly press releases, that is – as Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law HB 2307, a ban on state-licensed mental health professionals using “conversion therapy” on […]
Statesman Journal, May 21, 2015 Thanks to the diligent work of the Oregon State Hospital and the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the cremains of 18 military veterans and two spouses of veterans will be interred with full military honors on Friday, May 22, at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. The state hospital is the […]
by Jason Renaud and Jenny Westberg, Street Roots, 15 May 2015 For years, our organization, the Mental Health Association of Portland, has chronicled, eulogized and remembered persons who have been on the receiving end of Portland-area police violence. Today we’re sharing these names with you, recognizing early on that many were people barely noticed even […]
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