From The Lund Report, July 21, 2010 Bob Nikkel has been appointed executive director of Jefferson Behavioral Health, a mental health organization that contracts with the state of Oregon to provide services to Oregon Health Plan members. Most recently he was Oregon’s director of mental health and addictions, and has spent the past 40 years […]
Richard Harris takes on Oregon’s Mental Health and Addictions Division Interview by Amanda Waldroupe, published by Street Roots, October 24 2008 The Oregon office of Addictions and Mental Health Division is moving and shaking. On September 12, it was announced that Richard Harris, 68, the retiring executive director of Central City Concern, would replace Bob […]
From the Oregonian, September 11 2008 Bob Nikkel, assistant director of the state’s Addictions and Mental Health Division, has agreed to take on a new role at the Department of Human Services. Starting Monday, Nikkel will fill a newly created job intended to better integrate physical and mental health care throughout the state. Richard Harris, […]
From The Oregonian, November 19, 2006 Over the past three years, thousands of Oregonians have lost access to drop-in centers, counselors and other services created to treat people with mental illnesses before they become a serious danger to themselves or others. The changes result from the lingering effects of budget cuts by the Legislature and […]
From the Oregonian, December 29, 2005 Donita Diamata, director of consumer affairs for Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, is managing two thorny problems. For one, she’s mediating between an upset advocacy group of 14 Cascadia clients, whom she helped organize, and the person they are unhappy with, who happens to be her boss. At the same time, […]
DATE: January 31, 2005 TO: Interested Persons FROM: Robert E. Nikkel, MSW – Administrator RE: Closure of Adolescent Treatment Services at the Oregon State Hospital The Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OMHAS) has had a long-standing goal to develop community-based treatment alternatives to the Oregon State Hospital (OSH) for […]
Department of Human Services Office of Mental Health & Addiction Services DATE: January 31, 2005 TO: Interested Persons FROM: Robert E. Nikkel, MSW, Administrator RE: Closure of Adolescent Treatment Services at the Oregon State Hospital READ – the full formatted document here. The Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OMHAS) […]
From The Oregonian, December 31, 2002 – not available online For more than a decade, Oregon has relied on county mental health agencies to investigate themselves when a mentally ill patient dies under their care. The result: County officials have faulted their own conduct in only two of 247 deaths during the past 3-1/2 years. […]
By Bob Nikkel, MSW, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Mental Health Services, MHDDSD February 2000 DOWNLOAD – this essay as a formatted PDF document. [The material for this short history is based primarily on an article by O. Larsell, which appeared in the December, 1945 issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly; and a paper by Jim […]
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