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State and union staff warn 50% cut to SACU would displace residents, strain crisis care
Summary
Frontline staff, union representatives and Disability Rights Oregon told the Ways and Means Human Services Subcommittee that proposed cuts or a rapid transition of the Stabilization and Crisis Unit would displace residents and reduce Oregon’s crisis capacity.
At the public hearing on Senate Bill 5526, numerous employees of the Stabilization and Crisis Unit (SACU), union representatives and advocacy groups opposed a proposed reduction to SACU funding that would reduce the program’s size and move some state‑operated homes to private providers.
Bradley Capps, a SACU worker, told the subcommittee he was in “deep opposition to the proposed budget cuts presented to SACU” and said cutting SACU in half “would reduce roughly 50 more crisis beds from Oregon as a whole.” Christina Seinsdricker Brown, who identified herself as a direct support crisis specialist and president of SACU Local 1246, said the reduction came after staff had recently…
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