Are strict eligibility rules crippling Portland’s mental health court?
Multnomah County
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Terminal Energy
Partial Settlement, New Allegations in Chasse Lawsuit
Shocking new revelations in the James Chasse Jr. lawsuit.
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Cascadia in Crisis
Clients of County Mental Health Provider Speak Out
“LAST TIME Cascadia’s predecessor pulled something like this, I knew two people who committed suicide,” said mental health advocate Marian Drake, addressing Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler last Wednesday afternoon, May 21, during an emotional two-hour meeting concerning the financial collapse of the county’s giant mental health-care provider, Cascadia. There’s a public meeting to discuss […]
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Not Social Workers
At the Multnomah County Courthouse, the fourth floor elevator door opened to a scene one doesn’t witness every day: A man with a lolling jaw and the vacant stare of heavy meds walked past a group of three sharp-suited district attorneys in frantic discussion, I think, about one of their divorces. Next to them an […]