Laddie Read of Mainstream Media presents a brief profile of Central City Concern, including an overview of services provided. Central City Concern is a non-profit agency in Portland, Oregon with the mission “to provide pathways to self-sufficiency through active intervention in poverty and homelessness.”
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 9, 2013 Portland police have selected about 50 officers who volunteered to be part of a new specialized unit to respond to mental health crisis calls. The new unit is one of the initiatives that federal justice investigators last year urged the bureau to adopt to improve police encounters […]
By Erin Fenner, Willamette Week, March 6, 2013 Dr. Gary Oxman spent his career trying to save people who don’t care whether they live or die. Oxman—who just retired as health officer for Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties—has long wanted to do more to rescue drug users. He was one of the earliest supporters in […]
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 […]
From The Lund Report, December 31, 2012 John Bischof, M.D., joined Central City Concern’s Old Town Recovery Center as Medical Director on December 4th. Dr. Bischof brings to CCC a wealth of knowledge and experience in many settings, including community mental health, academia, and the public and private sectors. Dr. Bischof most recently worked at OptumHealth […]
By Christen McCurdy, The Lund Report, Nov. 8, 2012 There’s a very high preponderance of people on the Oregon Health Plan who have a mental health or substance abuse problem, according to Mary Monnat, president and CEO of LifeWorks NW. In the Portland metropolitan area, such problems affect 70 percent of that population. Now that […]
Clients, alumni, staff, neighbors, donors and friends, please join us at a free Recovery Month event celebrating 40 years of Hooper! “Hooper” includes Hooper Detox Stabilization Center, the Sobering Station, CHIERS Monday, September 10, 2012 – 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Left Bank Annex – 101 N. Weidler, Portland Free, limited parking (100 spots) available […]
From The Oregonian, August 02, 2012 Eds Comment: Unmentioned in this story is Dan Winters is the subject of Brian Lindstrom’s 2006 documentary Finding Normal. With some stories, it’s difficult to see where a story starts and ends. In this case, pick a day in the fall of 2006, call it the beginning and let […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 9, 2012 – by Peter Korn. Second of Two Parts Painkiller cuts send some patients to street drugs A year ago, Dr. Gary Oxman, Multnomah County’s public health officer, saw evidence that demanded what he calls a moral decision. He had watched as each year the number of Multnomah County […]
From the Portland Business Journal, April 2012 In March, Gov. John Kitzhaber signed into law Senate Bill 1580, which provides for the establishment of coordinated care organizations. Such organizations will help govern and administer care for those eligible for the Oregon Health Plan, as well as those eligible for Medicare, in their local communities. The […]
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