by | Oct 19, 2024 | CAHOOTS, community health
By Michelle Perin, CAHOOTS September 24, 2024: It was the morning of the march. I had flown over 2300 miles, and now I was looking for a place to sit and have my breakfast. The room was a bustle of activity—voices with shades of accents from all over the country....
by Gretchen Currie | Jan 6, 2021 | CAHOOTS
By Ben Adam Climer and Brenton Gicker From the January 2021 edition of Psychiatric Times Download PDF CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) is a mobile crisis-intervention program that was created in 1989 as a collaboration between White Bird Clinic...
by Gretchen Currie | Nov 16, 2020 | CAHOOTS, Clinic News
In the annual Eugene Weekly Best of 2020, CAHOOTS won best non-profit and best service for the homeless. Ebony Morgan, program coordinator and RN won best healthcare worker. Thank you Eugene, we are humbled as ever. Let’s keep our hearts open and these vans...
by Gretchen Currie | Oct 29, 2020 | CAHOOTS
31 years ago the City of Eugene, Oregon developed an innovative community-based public safety system to provide mental health first response for crises involving mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. White Bird Clinic launched CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping...
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...
