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Advocates urge county to protect culturally specific behavioral health funding and expand recovery housing
Summary
Public testimony at the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners' April 10 meeting urged the board to protect culturally specific behavioral health programs funded by Measure 110, to hire mental-health community members in county engagement offices, and to add transitional recovery housing beds to the housing continuum.
Several public commentators told the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners Thursday that local behavioral health funding cuts are jeopardizing culturally specific services and recovery housing while urging closer county attention to mental health and peer-led engagement.
Anne Casper, a longtime volunteer and peer advocate, told the board she worried that the county's Office of Consumer Engagement has shifted emphasis toward addiction-focused programming and away from mental health peer culture. "We're not quite sure what that office is doing for mental health," Casper said, and asked the board to hire people from the…
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