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Hope for the Homeless: Founded in compassion. Driven by results. Restoring futures. Congratulations to award winners New Avenues for Youth, Union Gospel Mission Portland, Portland Rescue Mission and City Team Portland for their lasting impact in ending homelessness.
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Hope for the Homeless: Founded in compassion. Driven by results. Restoring futures. Congratulations to award winners New Avenues for Youth, Union Gospel Mission Portland, Portland Rescue Mission and City Team Portland for their lasting impact in ending homelessness.
SRO at Kell’s for City Club talk on mental illness & homelessness. Time to center the people: Learn their needs, build an interconnected system to meet them, measure success. It’s not as hard – or expensive – as we’re making it. Thanks Cascadia Health's James Schroeder and all who came out.
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
SRO at Kell’s for City Club talk on mental illness & homelessness. Time to center the people: Learn their needs, build an interconnected system to meet them, measure success. It’s not as hard – or expensive – as we’re making it. Thanks Cascadia Health's James Schroeder and all who came out.
This report is devastating. Creating a functioning system isn't as hard - or costly - as Oregon is making it. EVERY OTHER STATE (+DC) doing better with less. Cascadia's James Schroeder and I talk solutions 10/22 at City Club: http://bit.ly/4ncNHOB
http://bit.ly/4nh7egQ
http://bit.ly/4nh7egQ
Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Later, Oregonians Disproportionately Suffer from Mental Illness
No other state in the country has a higher prevalence of mental illness. At the same time, access to care in Oregon is improving.
www.wweek.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This report is devastating. Creating a functioning system isn't as hard - or costly - as Oregon is making it. EVERY OTHER STATE (+DC) doing better with less. Cascadia's James Schroeder and I talk solutions 10/22 at City Club: http://bit.ly/4ncNHOB
http://bit.ly/4nh7egQ
http://bit.ly/4nh7egQ
“Despair turns into hope, isolation into connection, and wounds into healing.” Great energy, powerful lived experience and committed leaders at the Fora Health Freedom & Hope gala. The answers are in the room. Let’s be the change. Congrats to awardees Rep. Shannon Jones Isadore and Anthony Jordan!
October 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“Despair turns into hope, isolation into connection, and wounds into healing.” Great energy, powerful lived experience and committed leaders at the Fora Health Freedom & Hope gala. The answers are in the room. Let’s be the change. Congrats to awardees Rep. Shannon Jones Isadore and Anthony Jordan!
Deflection has failed in Multnomah County. Successful deflection isn’t about referrals, it’s about how many people actually complete treatment and are supported in recovery. Shockingly, Multco admits it doesn’t even track that data. This story is devastating.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Oregon poured millions into a new approach to drug arrests. Is it working?
In the year since Oregon once again made minor drug possession a misdemeanor crime, more than two dozen counties have experimented — with mixed success — in moving low-level drug offenders away from j...
www.oregonlive.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Deflection has failed in Multnomah County. Successful deflection isn’t about referrals, it’s about how many people actually complete treatment and are supported in recovery. Shockingly, Multco admits it doesn’t even track that data. This story is devastating.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
This is heartbreaking. And, tragically, it's typical of Multnomah County’s approach: Wait until people are harmed before taking action. The excuses are unconscionable and the results are inhumane. The choice to open shelters is the county chair’s alone. She needs to expand weather thresholds now!
www.kptv.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is heartbreaking. And, tragically, it's typical of Multnomah County’s approach: Wait until people are harmed before taking action. The excuses are unconscionable and the results are inhumane. The choice to open shelters is the county chair’s alone. She needs to expand weather thresholds now!
Having served on the Task Force that designed a feasible single-payer system, over the past year I've been dismayed by the direction of the governance board. Now I have hope! No one's more qualified than Hennrich to lead. Let's get her appointed and get going! www.thelundreport.org/content/top-...
Top staffer to Oregon's universal health care board resigns
Nine months after its launch the new state board tasked with crafting a plan for universal health care in Oregon needs to replace its top staffer
www.thelundreport.org
January 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Having served on the Task Force that designed a feasible single-payer system, over the past year I've been dismayed by the direction of the governance board. Now I have hope! No one's more qualified than Hennrich to lead. Let's get her appointed and get going! www.thelundreport.org/content/top-...