The Daily Astorian, July 23, 2015 Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis said Wednesday that the county is in crisis on mental health and that law enforcement is frustrated by a limited ability to help people in urgent need of care. “We are not doing a good job,” Marquis said at a work session held […]
From the Daily Astorian, October 15, 2013 As a crisis intake clinician with Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare, Susan Denight responds to mental health crises at the Clatsop County Jail, Youngs Bay Juvenile Detention Center and elsewhere throughout the county. Denight, 40, has been involved in social work and mental and public health in Oregon for a […]
From the Daily Astorian, June 10, 2013 Of all drug-related deaths in Oregon during the last 10 years, cocaine and methamphetamine deaths have gone down, with cocaine deaths decreasing by 43 percent. But there is one drug that continues to slowly climb. That drug is heroin, and of the four drug deaths in Clatsop County […]
From the Daily Astorian, October 11, 2012 Both Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin and Oregon State Police Trooper Jim Pierce, who answered questions Wednesday night at the American Association of University Women’s candidates forum, care about the mentally ill getting more help when involved with the authorities in Clatsop County. The two candidates for Clatsop […]
Press release from the Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization, about August 10, 2012 The Oregon Health Authority approved an application from Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization to take over managing Medicaid mental and health plan services on the North Coast as of Sept. 1. Columbia Pacific CCO will serve all of Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook […]
From the Seaside Signal, November 29, 2011 NOTE: Supporters of the Mental Health Association of Portland believe the law is the most expensive and least effective intervention for mental illness, and financial diversions from mental health treatment to police, courts, jails and prisons is a form of government corruption. Seaside Police Chief Bob Gross is […]
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