May 11 2021
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioners Mingus Mapps and Dan Ryan call for studying a crisis-intervention program before expanding it.
In late 2019, Portland s City Council unanimously and enthusiastically approved a game-changing plan to create a new branch for our city s first responder system called Portland Street Response. The program is currently operating as a one-year pilot in the Lents neighborhood.
The idea behind this new service is: instead of sending armed police officers to respond to 911 calls involving a houseless person experiencing a mental health crisis in a public space, the city will send out a team of mental health specialists, who will try to connect the person in crisis to the services they need to heal.
Editorial: Portland Street Response needs more time before going citywide
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Family and loved ones of Robert Douglas Delgado, who was shot and killed by Portland Police officer Zachary DeLong last week, held a vigil in Lents Park, where Delgado died, on Fri., April 23, 2021. The shooting has prompted Portland Street Response organizers to consider how they might change their criteria for cases to which they respond.The Oregonian
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The debate over how much the Portland City Council should fund the Portland Street Response isn’t about whether to support the pilot program, which dispatches a paramedic and social worker to handle select 911 calls involving people who are homeless or in mental health crisis. The entire council is united in the belief that Portland needs an effective and sustainable alternative to the traditional approach of sending police out on such calls.
May 11 2021
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioners Mingus Mapps and Dan Ryan call for studying a crisis-intervention program before expanding it.
In late 2019, Portland s City Council unanimously and enthusiastically approved a game-changing plan to create a new branch for our city s first responder system called Portland Street Response. The program is currently operating as a one-year pilot in the Lents neighborhood.
The idea behind this new service is: instead of sending armed police officers to respond to 911 calls involving a houseless person experiencing a mental health crisis in a public space, the city will send out a team of mental health specialists, who will try to connect the person in crisis to the services they need to heal.
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