By Dirk VanderHart, The Portland Mercury, Sept. 4, 2013 When local nonprofit Lines for Life persuaded Portland City Council a year ago to dole out $150,000 for expanded suicide hotline services, some in the mental-health community had concerns. Wouldn’t the organization increasingly be in competition with Multnomah County’s existing crisis call center? Why do we […]
By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, June 4, 2013 Every year about this time, Dr. Karen Gunson, the Oregon state medical examiner, and her colleagues tally up drug-related deaths in the state. And each year, Gunson sees trends in the numbers. For 2012, Gunson said, she saw that the ages of victims of heroin overdoses were […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 16, 2013 Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announced Thursday that the city will not cut its share of funding for the Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center, as he had set out to do in his proposed budget. “We are gratified that people having serious mental health issues will continue to […]
Multnomah County news release, May 10, 2013 At least 56 people experiencing homelessness died in Multnomah County in 2012, an average of at least one every week. That is the troubling finding of Multnomah County’s second annual “Domicile Unknown’’ report released Friday, May 10. READ – Domicile Unknown, 2012 (PDF, 406KB) The analysis by Dr. Paul Lewis, […]
By Steve Duin, The Oregonian, May 6, 2013 In chopping CATC — the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center — off at the knees, Mayor Charlie Hales is only looking to finish what the Portland police started. What remains to be seen is whether the cops’ stubbornness about the mental health facility is driving (a) the city’s […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, May 2, 2013 Mayor Charlie Hales‘ bid to pull the city’s share of funding for Multnomah County’s Crisis Assessment and Treatment Center—a 16-bed facility billed as a resource for police officers—has clearly irked County Chairman Jeff Cogen and even raised questions from at least one city commissioner, Amanda Fritz. […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, May 4, 2013 Carol Slaney woke up Jan. 31 to find her 26-year-old son dead beside her bed from an accidental drug overdose. She grabbed a .45-caliber revolver and disappeared, hiding in an abandoned house behind her Southeast Portland apartment. “I just sat in that house, spinning the gun, planning […]
Mayor Charlie Hales stunned Multnomah County officials Tuesday when he announced that the city would no longer pay its share of a 16-bed secure mental health treatment center that opened two years ago after the death of James P. Chasse Jr. Portland police haven’t taken anyone to the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center despite a much-celebrated […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, April 9, 2013 Portland police have selected about 50 officers who volunteered to be part of a new specialized unit to respond to mental health crisis calls. The new unit is one of the initiatives that federal justice investigators last year urged the bureau to adopt to improve police encounters […]
By Peter Korn, Portland Tribune, March 28, 2013 Ten months ago Multnomah County opened the nation’s first court set in a homeless facility. Nobody showed up. In what court authorities around the country labeled a potential breakthrough experiment, Multnomah County’s Community Court last year moved its Friday afternoon operation to Bud Clark Commons. The court […]
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