Officials Talk Mental Health

The Dalles City Council, Wasco County Commissioners, and representatives from other groups discussed mental health issues and how to deal with them, and there are plenty of hurdles to finding solutions.  Funding and inaction at the state level were discussed.  Mid-Columbia Center For Living board member and Hood River County Commissioner Karen Joplin said the state’s removal of intermediary mental health care 30 years ago to streamline services into the Oregon State Hospital has led to this problem.  Wasco County Sheriff Lane Magill says Oregon has a broken mental health system without a continuity of care, but the local public safety coordinating council would like to create a stabilization center.  Wasco County Commissioner Steve Kramer pointed out the need to make advocacy to state legislators on this issue a top priority.

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