Forced treatment is impossible in Oregon without a court order, and is generally ineffective otherwise.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955395915003588
https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2016/09/pg/chapter-55-report.pdf
We have only just now started providing increased services to people. It’s more than a year away from when that will be fully implemented and we’ll have robust data
https://bridgestochange.com/ 7916 SE Foster Rd, Portland, OR 97206
https://www.lifeworksnw.org/ (multiple physical locations) 3716 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97212 | 5240 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124 | 8425 N Lombard St, Portland, OR 97203 | etc
https://www.mhaoforegon.org/ 411 NE 19th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232
Between quarters 1, and 2 the number of people engaged in peer support services nearly doubled. Going from 4.7k people to 9.1k
Jail and confinement makes it worse actually. Especially if you have other mental health issues you’re dealing with. Normally I’m fine and function reasonably well, but after spending 3 days locked in an 8’x10’ room at multnomah county jail I was really slipping. Paranoid, vivid visual hallucinations, and some auditory stuff. You get the idea.
That was supposed to be in one of the nicer areas. Most of the people I saw were simply thrown in solitary confinement. Which is considered torture by the UN.
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