To: All DHS employees From: Bruce Goldberg, M.D., director Subject: Our clients’ voices Date: October 24, 2008 “We are not the worst moments of our lives.” ~Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking Recently I participated in a panel discussion about community treatment facilities for people with mental illness. It was clear from some […]
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, July 6, 2008 Oregon stuck between law and community fears as it releases mental patients with violent pasts On his first time outside alone in decades, Wade Slaughter [pictured right] stayed close to home: He went next door to the Goodwill and bought a blue plaid dress shirt. “It felt great,” he […]
From the Oregonian – Sunday, November 25, 2007 – no link available. An Albany foster mother recalls a 5-year-old boy medicated so heavily that he lived in an endless cycle of sleeping, rising for a meal, taking his pills and collapsing back into bed. A Salem nurse who volunteered at a camp for Northwest foster […]
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