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New Column Asks: What’s the Answer to the Shortage of Mental Health Care Providers?

In a column in U.S. News, David Levine points out that "two distrubing trend lines are currently crossing in the area of mental health care.

New Column Asks: What’s the Answer to the Shortage of Mental Health Care Providers?

128 Oregon Workers Say Yes to AFSCME

Since the 1960s, Outside In has been an integral part of Portland, Oregon’s, social services thanks to building one of the region’s largest homeless programs.

128 Oregon Workers Say Yes to AFSCME

Survey: 1 in 5 know someone who has been addicted to opioids

One in 5 Americans personally know someone who has been addicted to opioids, according to a survey released by the Federal Reserve Tuesday.

Exposure to opioid addiction was more common among whites, at all education levels, than minorities, the survey found.

Survey: 1 in 5 know someone who has been addicted to opioids

AFSCME Oregon Executive Director Gets Arrested in Solidarity with Bargaining Workers

Nine labor activists, including Oregon AFSCME Executive Director Stacy Chamberlain, were arrested this week while participating in a peaceful sit-in in support of Volunteers of America (VOA) Oregon workers, who are bargaining their first contract.

AFSCME Oregon Executive Director Gets Arrested in Solidarity with Bargaining Workers

Kids’ Suicide-Related Hospital Visits Rise Sharply

About five years ago, pediatricians at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville found that more and more of their inpatient beds at the children’s hospital were occupied by children and adolescents with mental health issues, especially those who had come in because of suicide a

Kids’ Suicide-Related Hospital Visits Rise Sharply