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
The Mental Health Association of Portland remains firm on Department of Justice v. City of Portland. The position elucidated in this column has been our unvarying stance since the outset of the lawsuit, and, barring sudden, cataclysmic changes descending ...
7 Aug 2014 - Jason Renaud