From NAMI Oregon via Disability Rights Oregon The Co-Chairs of the Joint Ways and Means Committee want to raid the Community Mental Health Housing Trust Fund of $5.8 million — half of the fund — to balance this year’s budget. The interest generated from this crucial Trust Fund has led to the development of new […]
From the Oregonian, August 13 2009 Gwen Watson picked up her acoustic guitar, gently placed her fingers along the frets and softly launched into John Denver’s “My Sweet Lady.” Her silky soprano soared effortlessly into the song’s upper register as she plucked the steel strings in mistake-free accompaniment. For all her musical virtuosity, 51-year-old Watson […]
From The Oregonian, November 9, 2006 Two years ago deputies responding to a call of a resident disturbing the peace shot and killed the woman after she charged them with a knife. The residents, a Clackamas County mental health worker has advised the deputies, are still a little on edge. The visit is part of […]
From The Portland Business Journal, February 5, 2006 Urgent-care patients from Portland get sent to facilities Over a recent holiday weekend, three Portland-area patients needing emergency mental health care were sent out of town for help. One patient ended up in a Medford hospital; the other two went to Corvallis. The reason: Not one Portland-area […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, April 21, 1996. Not available elsewhere online. Imagine Oregon’s seriously mentally ill patients leaving psychiatric hospitals. Picture them skiing down the slope of that graph over there. See them gliding into community programs with supervised housing, calming drugs and counseling. As background music, play “America the […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, April 18, 1996. Not available elsewhere online. “Police shootings in August 1994 of two mentally disturbed women in less than a week shocked and appalled Portland and Gresham.” “The cream of the crop.” The phrase is common, but both the source and the subject are surprising. […]
From the Oregonian, February 2, 1995 – not online Plans to site a mental health crisis center at the former Holladay Park Hospital in Northeast Portland building are dead. Howard Klink, deputy director of the county Community and Family Services Division, said Wednesday that plans for the center have fallen through. His comments follow a […]
The Oregonian, October 3, 1994 They came — 60 men and women, nurses, social workers, friends and kin of the mentally ill. They came to point out the needs of the mentally ill, to mourn and to protest the closing of Dammasch State Hospital. The crowd gathered Sunday evening outside the main entry to the […]
From The Oregonian, May 5, 1992 Mental health services in Multnomah County — which were decentralized a decade ago — should be centralized again. That’s the recommendation of a citizen task force that studied the county’s mental and emotional disabilities service system for nearly four months. County commissioners are expected to approve the recommendation at […]
From The Oregonian, April 26, 1992 – not available elsewhere online. Mari Lyn Sandoz could see the twinkling Christmas lights on the bus mall to her left. She angled away from them. Just staggered out of the phone booth and left the receiver hanging there. She had warned them, and now she was going to […]
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