Pertaining to homelessness and housing programs
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
From the Oregonian April 24, 2020 Three African American women who helped run Multnomah County’s first transitional housing program for black women returning to the community after prison are suing their former employer, Bridges to Change, alleging racial discrimination. O’Nesha Cochran, who was fired last spring as program manager of the new Diane Wade House, […]
Portland Tribune, December 04, 2019 County audit says public, board were misled: Questionable management to blame for 2017 budget request, not state It was an ugly situation that almost never became public. Cold winter winds were approaching, and decisions made by Multnomah County mental health managers were about to cause 45 to 50 severely mentally […]
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