Dale Jarvis – Oregon Mental Health Archive

County approves steps to mend fractured mental health care

August 10, 2001

From The Oregonian, August 10, 2001 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved the first phase of the county’s long-awaited mental health redesign. Commissioners also approved a budget outline for the acute-care plan but postponed until next month more specific — and potentially wrenching — decisions about how to pay for it. […]

Numbers confirm crisis in mental health

July 20, 2001

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From the Oregonian, July 20, 2001 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners got its first detailed look Thursday at the numbers behind the county’s mental health system crisis — and the proposed redesign for dealing with it. The board is scheduled to vote Aug. 9 on the so-called Gap Plan to deal with the imminent […]