Mental Health
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Students nationally continue to struggle with mental health. Here’s what support looks like at one Oregon high school
Students across Oregon and nationwide struggle with anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges, issues that affect them at home and in school. Many schools are stepping up to meet these student needs.
Disability Rights Oregon sues Washington County alleging it fails people in mental health crises
A one-year investigation found the county often sends police instead of mental health professionals to help people in crisis
What Oregon’s drug crisis looks like on the streets of Portland: Overdoses every day
State legislators will spend much of the next month debating whether to scrap Measure 110, Oregon's voter-approved effort at drug decriminalization. Their decision will directly impact the first responders who deal with drug addiction on the streets of Portland. But has decriminalization caused the spike in overdoses and public use, or has it simply made the crisis impossible to ignore?
How fentanyl and social isolation have worsened youth homelessness crisis in Oregon
The rapid rise of fentanyl and the lingering social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are overwhelming an already inadequate network of services for young people with substance abuse issues.
Oregon’s Medicaid insurers will redirect $25M in profits to youth mental health needs
Oregon has fewer beds available for youth with the most serious psychiatric needs than it did 20 years ago. The investments will go to four projects adding new psychiatric residential treatment beds, the governor says.
Uncertainty ahead for Cowlitz County programs as officials end tax
The Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners this month decided to discontinue a sales tax that pays a slew of initiatives that assist people struggling with drug use and behavioral health.
Suicides spike at Washington prisons, prisoners say they need more access to mental health care
Washington reported six suicides in state prisons this year, including a cluster of deaths at a state facility in Eastern Washington over the summer.
Oregon State Hospital plans to submit corrective action plan after patient escape
The state-run residential psychiatric hospital is working on a corrective action plan to submit to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Oregon Health Authority officials said on Tuesday. That plan is due by Dec. 21.
New focus on military students’ mental health at OSU
We hear from a military veteran who is leading a new effort to address the mental health needs of veterans and other military-connected students at Oregon State University.
Oregon hospital systems file new appeal to pressure state on psychiatric care
New filing contends a federal judge in Portland wrongly dismissed an earlier case related to the Oregon State Hospital.