Our response to – Bill preventing release of grand jury transcripts in police shootings draws ire, The Oregonian, February 19, 2016 ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Mental Health Association of Portland Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:07 PM Subject: opposition to SB 1550 To: Sen.FloydProzanski @ state.or.us Please add our organization to the list […]
From the Chinook Observer, July 25, 2014 Law enforcement officers see them every day: people in the grip of serious mental illness. Officers encounter them on the streets, some strung out, some committing crimes while glimpsing life through a faulty filter. Options for police are limited. Mentally ill inmates clog the state’s jails and prisons, […]
From the Oregonian, June 3, 3013 When Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward walked into a committee meeting, she didn’t plan to reveal to the world that she has suffered from major depression for 15 years. “If I go two days without taking my medication, I can’t walk in the door of this building,” Steiner Hayward, D-Beaverton, […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, May 14, 2013 The Oregon Legislature appears poised to give a planned mental hospital in Junction City $80 million, despite the fact that mental health advocates loathe the idea. READ – “Junction City hospital the worst way to treat mentally ill” (MHAP guest column in Eugene Register-Guard) As WW reported in January, […]
By the Associated Press, in The Oregonian, March 11, 2013 Courts would be required to consider veterans’ military backgrounds during criminal sentencing hearings under a bill passed unanimously Monday by the Oregon Senate. The measure, which now moves to the House, gives judges the authority to impose more lenient sentences on veterans, especially those suffering […]
By Chris McKee, KMTR, Feb. 19, 2013 A plea from the Eugene Police Department (EPD) was heard on the floor of the Oregon Senate Tuesday. The department asks for changes in the legal system governing the criminally accused with mental illness nearly two years after the death of Eugene Police Officer Chris Kilcullen. Eugene Police, […]
From the Eugene Register-Guard, February 27, 2012 There will be no new bond funding this year for the proposed state psychiatric hospital in Junction City, according to Gov. John Kitzhaber and several key lawmakers. But that doesn’t mean the project is stalled. State officials now acknowledge they in fact have $20 million in old funding […]
READ – Junction City hospital the worst way to treat mentally ill CONTACT – Committee members of the capital construction subcommittee of the Joint Ways and Means Committee. See contact information below. MESSAGE – Patients and professionals agree: funds are needed for community-based outpatient mental health services – not a new hospital. Don’t commit another […]
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 […]
Community Forum On the City’s 2012 State & Federal Legislative Agendas Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 6:30 – 8 PM Portland Building Room C, 2nd floor 1120 SW 5th Ave Commissioner Amanda Fritz invites you to participate in a Community Forum to give your input into the City’s state and federal legislative agendas. This […]
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