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Psychological impacts of this moment are overwhelming, Black mental health care providers say

Portland therapists serving the Black community say they’re at capacity as protesters and others fill their appointment slots ZaDora Williams is busier than ever. As a therapist and social worker in Portland who services the African American community, he ...

9 Aug 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Interactive discussion: Our Collective Mental Health and COVID-19

COMMENTARY | Rethinking Psychiatry to host Dr. Karen Hixson Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. for an event accessible virtually or by phone Dr. Karen Hixson will offer a radical mental health perspective in her talk, “Our Collective Mental Health During the Cov ...

6 May 2020 - Rachel Levy
Has Portland reduced police force against people with mental illness? Hardly

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
Hundreds with serious mental illness not getting services, Multnomah County audit finds

The county’s mental health funding isn’t reaching half of the people who qualify, according to the report More than half of adults who qualify for mental health services offered by Multnomah County aren’t getting them, according to an audit report release ...

29 Nov 2019 - Christen McCurdy
Healing takes center stage for young refugees

The youths see their writing come to life in the theater as part of Project Untangled, a program that helps them with their trauma It was Sunday night, Aug. 11, at the Oregon Children’s Theater in Northeast Portland, and there was a group of adult actors ...

23 Aug 2019 - Casey Miller
Professional athletes are opening up about their mental health

COMMENTARY | And that’s a very good thing The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa, taking questions after collecting a career achievement award from the Association for Women in Sports Media. I ...

19 Jul 2019 - John Affleck
Report: Oregon children worse off in the wake of poverty, suicides

The state ranks 29th in the U.S. for children’s economic well-being while child and teen deaths surge, according to the 30th annual Kids Count National Data Book A new report shows Oregon children rank in the bottom half of the country for economic well-b ...

28 Jun 2019 - Libby Dowsett
Prism Health answers demand for LGBTQ+ mental health care

Since it opened in 2017, the primary care clinic serving Portland’s LGBTQ+ community has seen more than 1,000 patients and has added two mental health providers Prism Health, Portland’s first allopathic health clinic focused on primary care for the LGBTQ+ ...

21 Jun 2019 - Ellena Rosenthal
Portland hospital ER often swamped with mental health crises, says department worker

Dan Currin, an emergency department crisis intervention specialist, discusses ERs’ role when psychiatric patients have nowhere else to go For people on the streets suffering from mental health issues, a crisis often means a trip either to jail or to the e ...

24 May 2019 - Helen Hill
Comedian Maria Bamford is not afraid to get personal

The ‘Lady Dynamite’ star doesn’t hesitate to talk about her mental health, her ‘structures of intimacy’ and how much she makes Comedian Maria Bamford has a singular talent for finding the absurd joy in moments that make most of us bubble in shame. At one ...

10 May 2019 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot