April 23, 2019 Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare’s Mental Health First Aid Prepares Portlanders to Provide Mental Health Support PORTLAND, OR – Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare is offering Mental Health First Aid trainings to the Portland community during May for Mental Health Awareness Month. “Just like traditional first aid, such as CPR, prepares you [...]
April 16, 2019 Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare Continues Transformation of Whole Health Care Fueled by Community Support at 2019 Gala Hosting a record 450 guests, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare’s 2019 Transformation Gala raised nearly a quarter million dollars in support of the nonprofit’s whole health care and outreach services. Highlights of the April [...]
April 1, 2019 April is Counseling Awareness Month April is Counseling Awareness Month -- a great time to recognize the importance of counseling, the passion of our counselors, and the role our counselors play in many facets of our community. [...]
March 29, 2019 Panel Calls For More Collaboration Among Mental Health Services Original article published by The Lund Report can be found here. Mental health services have fallen short for the people who need them most in Oregon — the Portland area especially — but a panel of authorities offered hope [...]
March 19, 2019 AmeriCorps Members Expand Cascadia’s Mental Health First Aid Services Last week, during AmeriCorps Week, we celebrate Jackie Moore and Lucia McArdle's service to Cascadia through AmeriCorps' Mental Health First AidTM (MHFA) Corps. Cascadia has been a MHFATM Corps Host Site through the Health 360 Healthy Minds Alliance since 2017. Through this [...]
March 7, 2019 Cascadia’s Problem Gambling Prevention Specialist Builds Awareness and Shifts Perspectives Kim Haak spends half of her time as a Problem Gambling Counselor at Cascadia and half her time as a Problem Gambling Prevention Specialist. Kim joined Cascadia’s Problem Gambling program five years ago and brings a unique [...]
March 5, 2019 Cascadia Expands Problem Gambling Treatment to North/Northeast Portland PORTLAND, OR – Typically, an Oregonian with a gambling problem is $25,000 in debt. And there are 80,000 of them. In April, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare will expand its no-cost Problem Gambling program to the Garlington Health Center, the nonprofit’s new [...]
February 21, 2019 New Primary Care Clients Reap Benefits of Integrated Care PORTLAND, Ore.—Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare has now been providing primary care for almost 700 new clients, one full year after launching primary care services as part of the organization’s move to embrace integrated healthcare – and deliver on their “whole health [...]
February 20, 2019 New location will provide Cascadia clients with continued respite services Cascadia's new Rockwood Respite opened its doors on Wednesday, February 6 for those experiencing a crisis. Located at 18766 SE Stark Street Rockwood Respite has relocated its staff and clients from the previous Glisan Street Respite. Cascadia purchased [...]
February 12, 2019 ED Liaisons Provide a Strong Safety Net Since 2004, Cascadia's Emergency Department (ED) Liaison Team has provided support to emergency rooms for individuals who are not eligible for inpatient-level care at the hospital, but who would benefit from additional service connections. Funded by Multnomah County, the ED Team [...]
