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Clackamas County outlines new stabilization center, recovery campus plans for Milwaukie area
Summary
Clackamas County and city officials updated the Milwaukie City Council on a 23‑hour crisis stabilization center and a larger recovery campus: the stabilization center will be run by out‑of‑county providers and is planned to open around December 2025; the recovery campus is a separate, larger project with a roughly $40 million price tag and phased,
Clackamas County Director of Health, Housing and Human Services Mary Rumbaugh told the Milwaukie City Council that the county will open a 23‑hour crisis stabilization center and a complementary housing‑and‑case‑management program intended to divert people in behavioral health crisis from hospital emergency rooms and jails. "The intent of the 23 hour side of the program is really about avoiding unnecessary hospital and jail utilization," Rumbaugh said.
The stabilization center will operate 24 hours a day but limits an individual’s stay on the 23‑hour side; Rumbaugh said the average length of stay at similar centers in Oregon and Idaho is about 10 to 11 hours. Rumbaugh said the 23‑hour side will accept only law enforcement and the county’s mobile crisis response team as referrals; there will be no walk‑up intake at opening. The 23‑hour facility will be accompanied by a housing and case‑management program that accepts referrals from the county’s coordinated housing access line.
City Manager Emma Segor thanked county staff for coordination and said the city has been participating in biweekly planning calls.…
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