A carceral response to public inebriates — once narrowly focused on low-income people downtown — caused people to search for a better way, fueling the creation of HADIN In the mid-1980s, the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of ...
6 Jul 2022 - Jason Renaud
COMMENTARY | The DOJ settlement resulted in training, but that wasn’t the solution we needed Koben Henriksen was the fifth person in a mental health crisis killed by officers of the Portland Police Bureau in 2019. Prior to Henriksen, Portland officers kil ...
20 Dec 2019 - Jason Renaud
COMMENTARY | We should be turning away from ineffective and often deadly responses that place people in unfit institutions, such as jail or hospitals May is mental health awareness month, a time to consider one’s own mental health, the health of others, a ...
27 Apr 2018 - Meredith Mathis and Jason Renaud
COMMENTARY | The stigmatizing language undermines real talk about mental health; Trump's problem is bad judgment For quite a while, pundits, journalists, political scientists and many others have exclaimed President Donald Trump is mentally ill. They ...
13 Oct 2017 - Meredith Mathis and Jason Renaud