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Residents and County Employees Urge Board Not to Cut School-Based Mental Health Programs
Summary
Multiple public commenters — including a county mental-health consultant, a veteran peer specialist and a school-based counselor — told commissioners that proposed budget cuts to Multnomah County school-based mental health and K-12 programs would remove critical supports for trans youth, BIPOC students and families.
Several speakers during public testimony urged the Board of County Commissioners not to cut Multnomah County's school-based mental health programs and related K-12 services in proposed budget planning.
C Bondurant, a Multnomah County employee and the county's LGBTQ+ mental health consultant within Behavioral Health Direct Clinical Services, said cuts would disproportionately harm trans youth, many of whom are BIPOC, immigrant…
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