http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1233980708252480.xml&coll=7 Erik Ayala’s case reflects the difficulty minorities have getting mental health treatment, advocates say Shortly after Erik S. Ayala was diagnosed with schizophrenia in high school, the Salem-Keizer School District tried to help him get coverage under the Oregon Health Plan so his family could pay for his medication. The state denied the request […]
From the Oregonian – Sunday, November 25, 2007 – no link available. An Albany foster mother recalls a 5-year-old boy medicated so heavily that he lived in an endless cycle of sleeping, rising for a meal, taking his pills and collapsing back into bed. A Salem nurse who volunteered at a camp for Northwest foster […]
From The Portland Business Journal, June 6, 2004 Four years ago, Multnomah County’s mental health care system, like so many of its patients, was in crisis. People struggling with severe but manageable mental illnesses were unnecessarily hospitalized at great expense. Lack of adequate emergency services and poor coordination among Portland-area mental health agencies led to […]
From the Oregonian, July 27, 2003 Cutting mental health services to patients such as Douglas Bean has cost Oregon more money than it is saving Douglas Bean was a quiet success story for the psychiatrists and others who struggled to treat him. After more than 30 years in and out of state hospitals, he was […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, May 6, 2003. Not available elsewhere online. Any darn-fool manager can make an agency look good when taxes flood in like high tide at full moon. When the tax tide ebbs, though, it takes brains, skill and grit to perform like a star. As one who […]
From The Oregonian – February 22, 2003, no longer online Multnomah County notified the Oregon Department of Human Services on Friday that it is terminating its mental health outpatient contract under the Oregon Health Plan because of drastically cut state money. The decision could mean the end of county-provided help to about 10,000 indigent adults […]
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 […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, part of the series – “Rescuing the mentally ill,” March 24, 2000. Not available elsewhere online. “The Oregonian has found no one during the last three months who can say reliably how much money is spent in Multnomah County on mental -health support” Confused thought processes […]
From The Oregonian, June 8, 1999 – not elsewhere online THE CITY LINKS WITH THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A CONFERENCE BROADCAST LIVE TO 6,000 SITES NATIONWIDE Sandy Hayden suddenly sat up in her threadbare easy chair and focused on the television. It was January, and President [Bill] Clinton had just announced plans for a White […]
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