Sign up now to receive emergency notifications via text message, phone call or email. Lane County is able to send you emergency alerts via text message, email, pager, or voice call (in extreme cases), based on your preferences. It is important that they collect this contact information because many households no longer utilize traditional land-based […]
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 and the City of Eugene, Oregon. Its mission is to improve the city’s response […]
We want to hear from you! Today we are asking you to give financially – and also to provide your input! White Bird operates on a foundation of funding from contracts and long-term grants, but donations from community members are what allow us to offer a broad array of programs meeting our diverse community’s many […]
White Bird’s Stay Warm Drive Activates download press release EUGENE, OREGON – With the onset of cold weather, our most vulnerable community members who are living outdoors face freezing winter conditions. White Bird Clinic is sending out a call for any and all winter gear, particularly socks, warm gloves, blankets and sleeping bags. For those […]
The Biden Administration has invested more than $6 Billion from the American Rescue Plan into Community Health Centers nationwide via the Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA), in order to support and expand COVID-19 vaccination, testing, and treatment for vulnerable populations; deliver needed preventive and primary health care services to those at higher risk for COVID-19; […]
Initial enrollment To start using Patient Portal, the staff at White Bird Medical will enroll you in Patient Portal in our system. You will then be given a token (also called a “security token“) that looks something like this: 123-45-678. Please do not give this token out to anyone. You then have 30 days to […]
LOG IN to Patient Portal How to send a message Patient Portal allows you to send a secure message (like email) to your provider or their staff. (Mobile instructions coming soon) From the Patient Portal home screen: Hover over the MAIL menu item on the main menu and select “Compose Message”. Next to “Category”, select […]
We are happy to announce that we received both first and second place recognition for “Best Program for the Homeless” in Eugene Weekly‘s annual 2018 Best of Eugene. CAHOOTS took first place and White Bird Clinic took second. Read more…
We are so thankful for our community partners, who have allowed us to reach far more donors for our annual Stay Warm Drive than we ever thought possible. We especially appreciate the Eugene Weekly for running our Stay Warm Drive ad every week since early December (way beyond what our budget could afford) and our […]
Kaia Sands, Executive Director of Street Roots, a Portland newspaper that creates income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty through media that is a catalyst for individual and social change, visited White Bird Clinic’s mobile crisis support program, CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) this month. In 2019, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, Police Chief […]
Live Healthy Lane is conducting a survey to inform the next Community Health Improvement Plan. The survey is open through February 28, 2019. Take the Survey in English: bit.ly/2019healthsurvey Responda la encuesta en español: bit.ly/2019healthsurveysp About the Community Health Improvement Plan In 2017, out of 36 counties in Oregon, Lane County ranks 13th for health outcomes (length […]
from the New York Times, June 5, 2020 “One model that members of the Minneapolis City Council cite is Cahoots, a nonprofit mobile crisis intervention program that has handled mental health calls in Eugene, OR since 1989. CAHOOTS employees responded to more than 24,000 calls for service last year — about 20 percent of the […]
The Reboot Station has closed for the winter and will reopen in early spring. Community Supported Shelter’s hygiene station is grouped with a Microsite of six Conestoga Huts occupied by people all working toward a higher quality of life for themselves. Three of the seven residents are paid, part-time employees helping with showers and meals. […]
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…
by Rashida Tlaib Apr 23, 2020 in “The Appeal” What would an Emergency First Responders Corps look like? “The most important aspect of the Emergency First Responder Corps is that it must be civilian and designed to help people. The idea isn’t novel — it is something neighbors have been doing for centuries, and the time […]
A federal emergency declaration on Sept. 15 gives all Oregon residents the right to sign up for coverage on the insurance marketplace through a special enrollment period. Read more… Oregon is currently facing far more evacuations and displacements than recorded history has shown. As such, many Oregonians applying for coverage through the Oregon Health Insurance […]
Patient Privacy Assurance This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully. English (467 KB pdf) Spanish (79.0 KB pdf) HIPAA Seal of Compliance Verification The HIPAA Seal of Compliance is the health care industry’s third party HIPAA verification. […]
Find Help Are you looking for CAHOOTS? To access CAHOOTS services, call police non-emergency numbers: 541-682-5111 (Eugene) 541-726-3714 (Springfield) Are you looking for our Crisis Line? Contact us at 541-687-4000 or 1-800-422-7558. Little Help Book Lane County Comprehensive Resource Guide Online Little Help Book (beta version) PDF Edition (updated 12/19) Frequently Accessed Resources Updated 4/6/2022 […]