by Gretchen Currie | Sep 5, 2020 | CAHOOTS
By Scottie Andrew, CNN, July 5, 2020 Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn’t necessarily require police...
by Gretchen Currie | Jul 15, 2020 | CAHOOTS, Press Releases
Senator Ron Wyden will meet with White Bird CAHOOTS staff at CAHOOTS headquarters at 970 W 7th Ave in Eugene to discuss how this groundbreaking program can be a model for a national policing reform package and how Congress can best support the work. “The Justice in...
by Gretchen Currie | Jun 13, 2020 | CAHOOTS
By RICHARD READ SEATTLE BUREAU CHIEF Los Angeles Times JUNE 12, 2020 “Across the nation, political leaders are struggling to strike a balance between righting injustices in ways that might mollify those protesting racism and brutality while at the same time...
by Gretchen Currie | Jun 12, 2020 | CAHOOTS
NPR Morning Edition took a look at effective alternatives to police response that keep people out of jails and emergency rooms. Tim Black from CAHOOTS is featured at about 7:08.
by Gretchen Currie | Jun 10, 2020 | CAHOOTS
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talked with crisis workers Benjamin Brubaker and Ebony Morgan at White Bird Clinic in Eugene, Ore., about their Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets program as an alternative to police intervention. Read the transcript…
