Pertaining to therapy, mental illness, suicide
The New Era Newspaper – November 5, 2025 The Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs honored nine individuals – eight veterans and one dependent family member – in an interment ceremony Oct. 22 at Willamette National Cemetery in Happy Valley. The cremated remains, which had been stored for decades in the Oregon State Hospital after going […]
Columbia River Mental Health Services announced in March 2025 it was suspending most operations due to financial difficulties. For some amount of time, about 5000 people with mental illness and addiction were left without medical and social services and without guidance as to where to get services. PRESIDENT – Dimitry Makhanov, OneDigital VICE PRESIDENT – […]
Peer respite has been an ideal in Portland since at least the opening of Outside In in 1968 to help teens who were “tripping” to “mellow out.” But government funders were wary if not in oppositional, so efforts always ended quickly. Peer respite is a fairly simple idea – a residential home designated as a […]
Oregon Health Authority fails to show results after spending millions, audit finds – Oregon Capital Chronicle, August 12, 2024 Oregon Health Authority auditors call for stronger oversight of behavioral health incentive programs and better outreach to communities Starting in 2021, Oregon lawmakers gave tens of millions of dollars in funding to the Oregon Health Authority […]
By OPB.org – May 21, 2024 The recent court filings revolve around different interpretations of Oregon’s relatively new laws governing police use of deadly force Attorneys for the city of Portland have asked a Multnomah County judge to overrule a jury’s roughly $1 million negligence verdict after a Portland officer shot and killed a man […]
Posted in The Oregonian – May. 13, 2024 Oregon ranks dead last in balancing the prevalence of youth mental illness with access to care, given high rates of youth with mental health conditions and the lack of available treatment, according to advocacy and monitoring nonprofit Mental Health America. At 21%, the state has the highest […]
From Willamette Week, February 2024 Data shows Oregon experiences a higher incidence of mental illness than most states but provides less services. Chris Bouneff says that’s because the state painted itself into a corner where only taxpayers foot the bill for mental illness, while private insurers have historically covered little. Bouneff came to National Alliance […]
Oregon Data extracted from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released February 2024 (PDF) Oregon Data extracted from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released February 2024 (PPTX)
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 […]
Portland city council prepares to vote on new sobering beds KGW.com – May 2023 ‘Portland could use 50 beds’: City council proposes adding sobering beds to psychiatric hospital KGW.com – May 2023 Council members are set to vote on Wednesday to add nine new sobering beds at the Unity Center’s Psychiatric Hospital. This would cost […]
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