Kaiser Health News, Nov. 12, 2015 Almost 8 percent of Americans 12 and older dealt with depression at some point between 2009 and 2012. With that many of us feeling blue, wouldn’t it be nice if we could simply hop on the computer in our pajamas, without any of the stigma of asking for help, […]
Eds. Note – The complaint below stems from the United States Department of Justice v. City of Portland settlement agreement where the city of Portland is required to hire a “Compliance Officer / Community Liaison” (CO/CL) and impanel a “Community Oversight Advisory Board” (COAB). DISTRIBUTED VIA EMAIL – November 19, 2015 TO: Adrian Brown, Assistant […]
The Register-Guard, Nov. 18, 2015 To the outside world, Nate Mart had his life together. He attended Southern Oregon University; he played football; he had a job. But Mart kept a secret: He was an addict — smoking pot, drinking alcohol and using cocaine. Every dollar he made working different odd jobs he spent on […]
Yahoo News, Nov. 11, 2015 In the month since the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon — in which a 26-year-old man killed eight students and a professor — Congress has turned not to gun control, but mental health. Six days after the shooting, Rep. Martha McSally, R-Arizona, sponsored the Mental Health and Safe Communities […]
KBOO radio Host Jo Ann Hardesty speaks with Jason Renaud of the Mental Health Association of Portland about the recent police killing of Michael Johnson, a mentally ill man in Portland and why the Department of Justice intervention hasn’t stopped police killings.
The author of this article, a high school sophomore, takes a bold stance on mass shootings: quit scapegoating people with mental illness and dodging the more important conversation. “So if there is no statistical proof that people with mental illnesses are more likely to be shooters, why do we blame them anyway? Because it is […]
The Breaking Point, Part 1 KDRV.com, Nov. 8, 2015 In the middle of creating Divine Lunacy, Peter Quince found out his son was schizophrenic. A surprising turn of events because the musical comedy is about mental illness and because Peter says he had no warning. “He seemed like the most well-adjusted easy going person on […]
Below is a listing of the 32 persons killed by Portland Police Bureau officers in the last decade. The column listed CLINICAL indicates what we can discern from the public record was the condition of the individual at the time of death. This information comes largely from police reports. A full listing of all persons […]
OPB News, Nov. 9, 2015 A study looking at mental health care among states has ranked Oregon dead last. The president of Mental Health America, Paul Gionfriddo, said researchers considered 13 elements for the ranking: from the number of residents with mental illness to access to care. “Oregon does generally poorly on the prevalence of mental illness […]
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