Lozier is the leader of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, which is holding its national conference in Portland The fact that safe, stable and affordable housing is an essential factor for a person’s good health is increasingly acknowledge ...
23 May 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
“We can stitch them up, but we can’t make them well.” These heart-rending words came from Alicia Boccellari, Ph.D., director of the Trauma Recovery Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, during a presentation at the f ...
1 May 2015 - Heather McDowell
"Becky” was in a state of disbelief. One week ago she told her boyfriend she was pregnant. Now he was handing her a hat, insisting, Becky says, that she cover up the bleeding wound he had allegedly inflicted to the back of her head only moments earli ...
20 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
Does place retain trauma? Can it heal? When I was a student at Grant High School, Kendra James and James Jahar Perez were killed after being stopped by Portland police. Their deaths were formative to my racial justice consciousness that had been initiated ...
16 Jan 2015 - Kyle Weismann-Yee
In 1891, George Breckonridge was the first juvenile to be placed into custody at the reform school for boys in Woodburn, Ore. His crime was stealing a newspaper off his neighbor’s porch. Fast-forward 124 years, and the population within the walls of what ...
10 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
How could this have happened? This question has reverberated in people’s minds and hearts since high school freshman Jared Padgett shot and killed 14-year-old Emilio Hoffman and injured physical education teacher Todd Rispler before taking his own life. A ...
15 Jul 2014 - Kerry Naughton
What I am about to share is unfortunately not a new or unique story. It is among millions and millions of stories, told and untold, by survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and harassment. That very fact fills me with indignation, not just as a person who i ...
2 Jul 2014 - Grace Badik
Ariel Gore is as raw and honest in her writing as she is in her life, earning her the moniker of the hippest mama around. But the backstory is a long way from Ozzie and Harriet. Gore, spurred by a resilience born of childhood trauma, dropped out of high s ...
3 Mar 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar