Understanding how police officers think about mental/emotional disturbance calls (PDF) 2014 – 8 pages, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Amy C. Watson, James Swartz, Casey Bohrman, Liat S. Kriegel, Jeffrey Draine ABSTRACT Police officers frequently respond to calls involving persons with mental illnesses and in doing so, they are key gatekeepers of access to […]
Improving police response to persons with mental illness: A multi-level conceptualization of CIT (PDF) 10 pages, 2008 – International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Amy C. Watson, Melissa Schaefer Morabito, Jeffrey Draine, Victor Ottati ABSTRACT The large numbers of people with mental illness in jails and prisons has fueled policy concern in all domains of […]
The Register-Guard, July 26, 2015 Oregon’s 16 coordinated care organizations were set up to provide health care for some of the state’s poorest residents, Medicaid patients. Yet 10 of the 16 CCOs are for-profit companies, and there are no limits placed on how much profit they can make. “I’m not aware of any (caps on […]
Oregonian Editorial Board, July 23, 2015 One of the big wins coming out of the legislative session this year is one that has received only modest notice: authorization for $20 million in lottery bond proceeds to be spent on mental health housing. Mental health is one of those needs that can absorb millions of dollars like […]
The Daily Astorian, July 23, 2015 Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis said Wednesday that the county is in crisis on mental health and that law enforcement is frustrated by a limited ability to help people in urgent need of care. “We are not doing a good job,” Marquis said at a work session held […]
The Lund Report, July 21, 2015 The restructuring of the Oregon Health Authority has been completed, with seven new divisions now reporting to Lynne Saxton, its director. They include operations; equity and inclusion; health systems (including behavioral health); external relations; health policy and analytics; public health; and the state hospital. At the Health Policy Board […]
The following is an email sent July 17, 2015 from Marian Drake to Multnomah County Commission Chair Deborah Kafoury, in response to the newsletter reprinted below. July 17, 2015 Thank you Madam Chair, for your newsletters. Regarding your paragraph in your newsletter, “The legislature also invested $28 million for mental health services, including jail diversion, […]
Statesman Journal, July 14, 2015 Tim Murphy learned a lesson recently. The executive director of Bridgeway Recovery Services, which treats people with addiction and mental illness, realized there are certain people in the Salem community who are more focused on getting rid of people with addiction rather than the illness itself. It’s easy to judge […]
Portland Business Journal, July 9, 2015 A report out this week detailing how heroin use has surged in the U.S. came as no surprise to Dr. Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. “We’ve had significant heroin problem in Oregon for decades,” Seppala said. “Everything suggests it’s continued to worsen.” The […]
The Lund Report, July 3, 2015 For the first time, Oregon will use all of its $158 million biennial tobacco master settlement for healthcare-related expenses, and not divert the money to pay for other projects. The bulk of the funds will be geared toward the Oregon Health Plan, which will receive $102 million. The state […]
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