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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.�
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CANTON – A longtime community volunteer and former TimkenSteel vice president has been selected to lead CommQuest Services.
The agency s board announced this week that Elaine Russell Reolfi will serve as president and chief executive officer effective immediately.
Reolfi replaces Keith Hochadel, who is leaving CommQuest after 11 years in leadership roles.
George Urban, president of CommQuest’s board, said in the press release announcing the change that Reolfi is a business leader who can help CommQuest meet challenges and provide hope for community members who rely on the agency.
“Our mission has never been more important to the community, and with CommQuest’s continued growth, our business challenges have never been greater,” Urban said in the release.
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Monroe County will immediately begin to divert behavioral health crisis calls that do not require an immediate in-person response to the 211/Lifeline crisis hotline and will work to develop an around the clock system of non-police responders to handle mental health crisis calls that need an immediate, in-person response, county officials announced Thursday.
Both initiatives were suggested by a county mental health and substance abuse disorder task force, which on Thursday released a report and findings about the county’s delivery of key mental health and addiction services, including its Forensic Intervention Team, which pairs county mental health clinicians with police officers responding to calls in which a person is experiencing a crisis.