The youths see their writing come to life in the theater as part of Project Untangled, a program that helps them with their trauma It was Sunday night, Aug. 11, at the Oregon Children’s Theater in Northeast Portland, and there was a group of adult actors ...
23 Aug 2019 - Casey Miller
COMMENTARY | And that’s a very good thing The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa, taking questions after collecting a career achievement award from the Association for Women in Sports Media. I ...
19 Jul 2019 - John Affleck
The state ranks 29th in the U.S. for children’s economic well-being while child and teen deaths surge, according to the 30th annual Kids Count National Data Book A new report shows Oregon children rank in the bottom half of the country for economic well-b ...
28 Jun 2019 - Libby Dowsett
Since it opened in 2017, the primary care clinic serving Portland’s LGBTQ+ community has seen more than 1,000 patients and has added two mental health providers Prism Health, Portland’s first allopathic health clinic focused on primary care for the LGBTQ+ ...
21 Jun 2019 - Ellena Rosenthal
Dan Currin, an emergency department crisis intervention specialist, discusses ERs’ role when psychiatric patients have nowhere else to go For people on the streets suffering from mental health issues, a crisis often means a trip either to jail or to the e ...
24 May 2019 - Helen Hill
The ‘Lady Dynamite’ star doesn’t hesitate to talk about her mental health, her ‘structures of intimacy’ and how much she makes Comedian Maria Bamford has a singular talent for finding the absurd joy in moments that make most of us bubble in shame. At one ...
10 May 2019 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
A heavy reliance on law enforcement is a departure from the original intent of the Multnomah County-funded Project Respond Despite Multnomah County leadership’s efforts to steer away from treating mental health crises as a criminal matter, police remain d ...
3 May 2019 - Emily Green
Understanding the link has created opportunities for training and prevention in Oregon “Breaking the Silence” is a statewide media collaboration aimed at putting a spotlight on the public health crisis of suicide in Oregon and offering our readers, listen ...
5 Apr 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
Dr. Helen Riess, author of 'The Empathy Effect,' says the way we communicate can influence how and what we feel for others Empathy can be learned, and it can be lost. Every time a person chooses to communicate through text message, email or soc ...
15 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | Homeless students deserve the same education as their peers Improving educational outcomes for all of Oregon’s students is urgent business. That’s why it was so important to me to add a provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, passed by ...
8 Feb 2019 - Ron Wyden