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Homelessness Response Action Plan – 2024

March 19, 2024
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Homelessness Response Action Plan DRAFT, Multnomah County March 2024 Multnomah County Homelessness Response Action Plan website. MEDIA Editorial: Homelessness response strategy must be a plan of action not a wish list – Oregonian March 17, 2024 Multnomah County commissioners and Portland City Council met last week to discuss a draft Homelessness Response Action Plan.Multnomah County […]

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Next Best Steps for Multnomah County – January 2024

January 29, 2024
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Once a year or so, members of the Mental Health Association of Portland issue recommendations on how service providers can improve the quality of life for people with addiction and mental illness. This year we consider Multnomah County.  Next Best Steps for Multnomah County  For people with lived experience of mental illness and addiction, and […]

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Behavioral Health Resource Center – news stories Spring 2023

April 6, 2023
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Staff drug use, alleged misconduct shuttered Multnomah County behavioral health center, now reopened – Oregonian, April 2023 Security concerns and misconduct among contracted staff shuttered Multnomah County’s Behavioral Health Resource Center in downtown Portland late last month, county staff acknowledged for the first time on Monday, the day of the center’s reopening. Earlier this month, […]

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Multnomah County Seeks $1.5 Million Behavioral Health Grant

July 22, 2022
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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 […]

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History of the Homeless Alcohol and Drug Intervention Network

July 1, 2022
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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 […]

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Can Peer Support Help Unhoused Portlanders in Crisis?

July 1, 2022
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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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Multnomah County Poor Farm

September 16, 2021
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Multnomah County Poor Farm admissions register index (transcribed). This file is a 500+ page 160 MB PDF so be patient; it will take a moment or so to download. The PDF is not searchable. Below is a snapshot of page one. Roughly 22,250 entries are listed in this document, people sentenced to live and labor […]

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Diane Wade House

February 1, 2021
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Multnomah County to ‘close out,’ revamp transitional home for Black women leaving prison after evaluator’s critical report From The Oregonian – February 1, 2021 Multnomah County plans to completely revamp its first transitional residential program for Black women leaving prison after a critical report described a climate of “fear and mistrust,” poor communication and the […]

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Judy Ann Parker and Eugene’s Missing Mentally Ill

May 31, 2020
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“Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them — will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard […]

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Vancouver Navigation Center in limbo due to virus

May 26, 2020
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Columbian – May 26, 2020Columbian – May 26, 2020 When COVID-19 hit, the Vancouver Navigation Center had just been getting back on track. The city-owned day shelter for people without homes had been through a thorny couple of months. It had been left without a designated operator; the previous organization, the nonprofit Share, had dropped […]

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