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
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
Richard Harris spent much of his working life with people addicted to various substances, and he knows about drugs and what they can do to people. So when Harris came out in support of Measure 91, which would legalize recreational marijuana use if approve ...
14 Oct 2014 - Jake Thomas
-Number of mental health professionals responding in person to students and community members in the first day after the Reynolds High School shooting: 98-Number of deaths caused by firearms (includes suicide) in the U.S. in 2013: 31,672-Number of homicide ...
24 Jun 2014 - Street Roots Staff
On the desk in Juliet Follansbee’s downtown Portland office is a thick book of Oregon laws. It contains only a few sentences that grant the state agency she operates tremendous power over the lives of hundreds of Oregonians. In May, Follansbee was made in ...
12 Apr 2014 - Jake Thomas
About 450 million people live with mental illness worldwide and nearly one million a year die of suicide. Portland’s suicide rate is higher than the national average, according the Portland Police Bureau, and last year the city’s attention was drawn to Vi ...
26 Mar 2014 - Robin Lindley
The word “firefighter” often conjures up images of burly men clad in heat-resistant suits and iconic firefighter hats, wielding axes and pulling people from burning houses and kittens from trees. But in recent decades, fire departments, particularly in ur ...
11 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas