Oregonian, July 27 2022 The City of Tigard will pay $3.8 million to the mother of 26-year-old Jacob Macduff, who was fatally shot by Tigard police while experiencing a mental health crisis outside of his apartment complex in January 2021. As part of the July 2022 wrongful death settlement agreement, the city agreed to undergo […]
Willamette Week – July 20, 2022 Some of Portland’s largest providers of substance abuse disorder treatment are furious at the way tens of millions of dollars in new funding are being allocated in Multnomah County. There’s a lot of cash at stake: $59 million of new funding from Measure 110 for Multnomah County providers alone. […]
Portland Tribune, July 20, 2022 Multnomah County is renovating an older building at 333 SW Park Ave. in downtown Portland to become a Behavioral Health Resource Center providing a mix of housing, services and respite to houseless people. Multnomah County officials are seeking state funding to expand behavioral health services for people who are frequently […]
Portland Business Journal, July 21, 2022 Multnomah County and seven other behavioral health providers expressed disappointment with how Measure 110 grants have been allocated and are asking the Oregon Health Authority to reconsider. The organizations detail their criticisms — missed opportunities, lack of fairness and innovation and “rushed and poorly developed” application materials — in […]
The Cost of Fragmented Mental Health Financing: Is It Worth It? Moral Treatment at the End of the Oregon Trail: Dr. James C. Hawthorne, 1819-1881 Mental Health in the Oregon Health Plan: Fragmentation or Integration – Cutler, McFarland Disseminating the Principals of a Community Support Program – Cutler, et al DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE STATE MENTAL HEALTH […]
From Willamette Week, July 8, 2022 The findings reveal glaring inaccuracies in the accessibility of mental health care. READ – Phantom Networks: Discrepancies Between Reported And Realized Mental Health Care Access In Oregon Medicaid (PDF) Directories of mental health care providers for low-income Oregonians vastly overstate the availability of care, according to a new study […]
From Street Roots, July 6, 2022 – by Jason Renaud In the mid-1980s the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of view of the downtown business community which funded campaigns to elected persons to city hall and to the county) was public inebriates. They were considered unsightly, slightly dangerous, a […]
From Mindsite News, June 18, 2022 Jennifer Coon, a certified recovery mentor, talks with a man outside of Blanchet House. (Photo courtesy of Julie Showers/Blanchet House) By pairing unhoused locals with counselors who have lived experience, Multnomah County is hoping to take a more relationship-oriented approach to addressing homelessness. Some unhoused Portlanders dealing with substance use or mental […]
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