Oregon Considers Changing The Way Mentally Ill People Are Committed
Last year, Don Baglien’s 19-year-old son experienced a psychotic break. It was a Sunday afternoon. He picked up the family picnic and threw it over the fence.
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Boarded In The ER: Oregon’s Mental Health Crisis
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On a typical day, doctors rush through the emergency department toward sounding alarms, and ambulances whisk in people suffering heart attacks, strokes or severe pain. Medical technicians and nurses attend to patients as worried families hover close.
Breaking The Silence: Mental Health Workers Considering Suicide Not Alone
Kathy Marambe spent 40 years helping people in a mental health crisis.
Opinion: Breaking The Silence – Now It’s Our Turn
Something amazing happened last week in Oregon: in coffee shops, at the gym, driving carpools, meeting friends -- just about everywhere people gather in Oregon, we have been talkin
Personal Trauma Motivates Naito Family To Invest $1 Million In Mental Health
Anne Naito-Campbell felt appalled when a judge ruled that the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her daughter was not guilty. She had seen the bruises on her daughter. She had watched her struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Lawmakers Let Mental Health Bill Die To Dismay Of Backers
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Hundreds of Oregon House and Senate bills quietly died last week, with the March 29 deadline passing for legislation to be scheduled for a work session or get shelved.
Panel Calls For More Collaboration Among Mental Health Services
Mental health services have fallen short for the people who need them most in Oregon — the Portland area especially — but a panel of authorities offered hope Thursday that the system can be improved through collaboration among multiple service providers.
Multnomah County Fires Top Mental Health Officials; Promotes Insider
Multnomah County has fired its two top mental health leaders and promoted an insider to lead its Mental Health and Addiction Services Division following an investigation into complaints of abuse and neglect at the Unity Center for Behavio
Multnomah Commissioner Sharon Meieran Driven By Oregon's Mental Health Crisis
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Multnomah County Commissioner Dr. Sharon Meieran became a mental health advocate after working in emergency rooms. During shifts as a physician, she saw patients languishing in scrubs with nowhere else to go.
Press Release: Former Adviser to Sen. Patty Murray Will Lead Disability Rights Oregon
The Board of Directors of Oregon’s leading statewide disability rights organization announced Tuesday it had hired the Senate’s top staff member on disability policy, Jake Cornett, to serve as the organization’s new executive director. The Board of Directors launched a nationwide search to fill
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