The Oregonian, Dec. 3, 2015 A woman who checked herself into a mental health treatment center in Portland because she was having suicidal thoughts reported to police she was sexually assaulted in a room by another patient, according to court reports. Biniam Yemane Tesfamariam, 30, was arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon on […]
Dear Judge Simon, NAMI Multnomah members are concerned that the current Department of Justice Agreement with the City of Portland and the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) leaves a great deal of wiggle room for what could culminate in another disastrous Use of Excess Force event. We believe that there are several loopholes that need to […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 16, 2013 Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announced Thursday that the city will not cut its share of funding for the Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center, as he had set out to do in his proposed budget. “We are gratified that people having serious mental health issues will continue to […]
By Steve Duin, The Oregonian, May 6, 2013 In chopping CATC — the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center — off at the knees, Mayor Charlie Hales is only looking to finish what the Portland police started. What remains to be seen is whether the cops’ stubbornness about the mental health facility is driving (a) the city’s […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, May 2, 2013 Mayor Charlie Hales‘ bid to pull the city’s share of funding for Multnomah County’s Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center—a 16-bed facility billed as a resource for police officers—has clearly irked County Chairman Jeff Cogen and even raised questions from at least one city commissioner, Amanda Fritz. […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 4, 2013 On her recent night shift at Portland’s Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center, peer counselor Ashleigh Brenton, 56, was making 15-minute checks on a suicidal patient when another patient came running up to her crying. Brenton didn’t have long to handle the situation before she had to continue […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 4, 2013 Carol Slaney woke up Jan. 31 to find her 26-year-old son dead beside her bed from an accidental drug overdose. She grabbed a .45-caliber revolver and disappeared, hiding in an abandoned house behind her Southeast Portland apartment. “I just sat in that house, spinning the gun, planning […]
Mayor Charlie Hales stunned Multnomah County officials Tuesday when he announced that the city would no longer pay its share of a 16-bed secure mental health treatment center that opened two years ago after the death of James P. Chasse Jr. Portland police haven’t taken anyone to the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center despite a much-celebrated […]
By Denis Theriault, The Portland Mercury, Jan. 16, 2013 The thought was hard to escape. If life had gone just a little bit differently—if the feds had waited to crack down on Portland cops for years of rough treatment of the mentally ill, if Occupy Portland hadn’t sprouted right when it did in 2011, if […]
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