COMMENTARY | Healing circle to connect receivers and providers of psychiatric treatment On Wednesday, March 16, from 6-9 p.m., three local progressive grassroots organizations, The M.O.M.S. Movement, Rethinking Psychiatry and The Icarus Project, will host ...
10 Mar 2016 - Rachel Levy
Juvenile detention centers – where most inmates experience mental illness – aren’t equipped to handle kids with serious needs In Oregon, kids with mental health needs who come into state custody are being warehoused in juvenile detention facilities becaus ...
29 Jan 2016 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | What you can do to make a difference When we are out and about, meeting and tweeting, connecting with people in their first years of recovery from mental illness, invariably they want to do something. Something big! Something political and ar ...
12 Dec 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
COMMENTARY | A conversation with Right 2 Dream Too co-founder Ptery Lieght Housing activist Ptery Lieght has been involved for years in efforts to make safe, affordable housing available to all. He has been active in Portland’s two legal camps for the hom ...
29 Oct 2015 - Rachel Levy
COMMENTARY | Let's get the uncomfortable facts on the table In the days since the Umpqua Community College mass murder, communities grieve, mourners weep, survivors twist in anguish, and we — all of us — grope for answers. “How will we get through to ...
15 Oct 2015 - Jason Renaud an...
Director talks about providing effective, compassionate mental health care in the wake of the UCC shooting At 10:38 on the morning of Oct. 1, a 26-year-old Umpqua Community College student shot and killed nine students and injured nine more before killing ...
15 Oct 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
Multnomah County's Central Library adds position to aid patrons with mental-health needs Multnomah County Library is preparing to hire its first full-time social worker to aid library staff in defusing on-premise mental health crises and to better se ...
19 Jun 2015 - Emily Green
The former ‘SNL’ Annoying Man turned Renaissance performer on comedy, mental health, and Israel Jon Lovitz was part of an iconic “Saturday Night Live Cast” in the late ’80s that included Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Dennis Miller and ...
1 Jun 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
In 2013, the city agreed to create a mental health center in its settlement with the Department of Justice over police use of force. Two years later, what that would look like is all still a matter of perspective. Local hospitals are going full steam ahea ...
7 May 2015 - Christen McCurdy
For a big act, each detail is crucial; same goes for Portland’s DOJ settlement Glam rock bad boys Van Halen included an odd item in their contract rider: a bowl of M&Ms, but no brown ones. A single brown M&M in the bowl, and the band wouldn’t play ...
12 Apr 2015 - Jason Renaud an...