Mental Health Matters

National Alliance on MentaI Illness-Southern Oregon illuminate what it means to struggle with mental illness.

Monthly interview about mental health with National Alliance on Mental Illness-Southern Oregon.

Oregon releases draft rules for how to set up new psilocybin system, and there are some surprises.

Monthly mental health interviews. January is about the value of support groups.

Focusing on mental health self-care.

Many Americans with mental illness report waiting weeks for care, even for serious depression or suicidality. Now California has a new law for insurers, limiting those wait times to two weeks or less.

In an unusual move, the Multnomah County Circuit Court judge found the Oregon State Hospital in contempt of a previous contempt order for failing to transport two defendants from the Multnomah County Jail who were found guilty except for insanity. The two men have been waiting for admission for months and now fines have increased from $2,500 per day, per defendant as long as they wait in jail.

A state advisory board has just issued a report saying the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms, psilocybin, shows promise in mental health therapy.

Oregon Legislature recently approved a bill that will help fund mobile mental health crisis teams around the state.

A budget revision released in May by Gov. Gavin Newsom could put more than $4 billion toward home visiting programs, school counselors, childhood trauma screenings and better Medi-Cal coverage for psychiatric care.

A select group of doctors, social workers and fungi experts will now spend the next couple of years creating Oregon’s new psilocybin-assisted therapy program.

A group in the Rogue Valley is working to expand mobile mental health crisis units in Jackson County and around the state. They’re advocating for legislation modeled on a successful program in Eugene called CAHOOTS.