Fairview Training Center – 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 […]

Locking up the problems isn’t the solution

September 8, 1996

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By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, September 8, 1996. Not available elsewhere online. Review these recent Portland scenes: 1. During Rose Festival, a woman was disrupting traffic, holding a baby doll, sucking her thumb and beating her head against trees, injuring herself. 2. He really thought he was Superman and would not […]

Inadequate staffing leaves mental patients unsafe

October 25, 1987

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Mind Games: Oregon’s Mental Health System First of a five part series on the Oregon State Hospital From The Oregonian – October 25, 1987. Not available elsewhere online. Asylum: A place where one is safe and secure.” — Webster’s New World Dictionary. When George Lewis Archer, 60, collapsed dead in a pool of blood by […]