Ed Riddell – Oregon Mental Health Archive

A Voice for the Voiceless

April 14, 2002

By Don Colburn, The Oregonian, April 14, 2002 The man in navy sweats and white sneakers perches on his motorized cart, listening hard. His left hand — the one that works — clutches a copy of an agenda he cannot read. “Yeah! Yeah!” he bellows from the back of the room when anyone says something […]

Mental health in crisis

September 16, 2001

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From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The area’s mental health care system is in a state of disrepair, but county officials have created a stop-gap plan Anyone involved in the local mental health system as a client, provider, administrator or family member has been familiar with the litany of faults and failures of […]

Walk-in clinics, mobile teams part of new plan

September 14, 2001

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From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was […]