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Oregon legislature passed many new investments in behavioral health
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The 2021 Oregon Legislative Assembly adjourned Saturday, June 26th, marking the end of this year’s legislative session. Among the many health-related bills that passed, Rep. Rob Nosse said this session featured significant new investments to support the behavioral and mental health of Oregonians.
“The 81st session will be remembered as the one where we finally started making investments to bring about the promise of the deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness and started making community-based treatment an actual reality.”
The legislature invested $474.4 million into a behavioral health bill package this session. Certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs), which provide mental health and substance abuse treatment regardless of insurance coverage, received $121 million. Another $130 million was allocated toward increasing capacity for licensed residential fa
Oregon’s BIPOC Caucus Reflects on Major Achievements Published: 29 June 2021
The Monday after the 2021 state legislative session ended, nearly a dozen members of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Caucus gathered remotely to discuss significant wins over a hectic few weeks many called historic.
Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Happy Valley)“Our 12-member caucus presented an ambitious policy agenda to address the roots of structural racism and promote racial equity, accountability, justice, and healing,” Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Happy Valley) said in her introduction. “This session, our caucus prioritized and delivered on affordable housing, and the houselessness crisis, public safety and police reform and accountability, environmental justice, education, equity, immigrant and refugee rights, economic opportunity and development, health care, infrastructure, health care access and affordability, mental and behavioral health, and cultural preservation and celebration.�