Washington State – Oregon Mental Health Archive

In Rural Northwest Mentally Ill Teens Struggle For Services

November 13, 2011

From Northwest Public Radio, November 11, 2011 You have to drive long roads through seas of wheat stubble to get to Joy and Wayne Odum‘s house. For years in this stark landscape Joy and Wayne have felt unsettled. Unsafe. It all started when they finally got custody and adopted their grandson Kristopher when he was […]

Once anonymous, graves of mentally ill at Wash. mental institution get named markers

August 16, 2009

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From the Associated Press, posted in the Los Angeles Times, August 15 2009 Faded numbers stamped into small cement blocks marked the graves of more than 3,200 mentally ill patients buried here at Western State Hospital between the 1870s and 1953. Over time, the stones themselves sank into the earth, leaving the dead in almost […]