Your contact information has been submitted. Please allow 24-48 hours to hear back from us. If you need quicker service, please contact us by phone at (541) 342-8255. If this is a crisis… CAHOOTS Mobile Crisis Services: Available 24/7. Call the police non-emergency numbers 541-726-3714 (Springfield) and 541-682-5111 (Eugene) to reach dispatch. Community Crisis Hotline: Available 24/7. Call 541-687-4000 […]
Vox’s daily news explainer podcast featured White Bird Clinic’s CAHOOTS program, and how it has been an effective alternative to police involvement in mental health crises for 30 years.
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 Out On The Streets) as a community policing initiative in 1989. The CAHOOTS model has been in the […]
Rendering courtesy of GMA Architects, an architecture and design firm in Eugene, Oregon Download Press Release (PDF) The new clinic will increase the dental program’s capacity by seventy-five percent. EUGENE, OREGON – White Bird is constructing an expanded dental clinic at 1415 Pearl St. that will offer urgent and preventative oral health care. The clinic […]
The fires and economic hardship have displaced over 100,000 Oregonians at a time when we face the most severe affordable housing shortage in the state’s history. It will cost billions of dollars and take a decade to build enough homes to bridge the gap. At the same time, there are more than a million spare […]
Mental Health First Aid USA for Older Adults is an 8 hour public education program which introduces participants to the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adults over the age of 65, builds understanding of the importance of early intervention, and teaches individuals how to help an older adult in […]
EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — PenFed Credit Union’s Eugene Service Center today announced it presented a $4,000 donation to White Bird Clinic, a nonprofit organization that provides affordable and friendly medical care to indigent, homeless, low-income, and otherwise marginalized populations, such as community members who are employed but uninsured or underinsured. “White Bird Clinic’s […]
EUGENE, OREGON – White Bird Clinic is partnering with the Community Center for the Performing Arts/WOW Hall to offer COVID-19 vaccinations. A team of volunteers will allow White Bird to vaccinate up to 800 people each week. White Bird has opened a vaccination clinic at the WOW Hall in order to scale up vaccinations and […]
CAHOOTS Eugene: 541-682-5111 / Springfield: 541-726-3714 CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) provides mobile crisis intervention 24/7 in the Eugene-Springfield Metro area. CAHOOTS is dispatched through the Eugene police-fire-ambulance communications center, and within the Springfield urban growth boundary, dispatched through the Springfield non-emergency number. Each team consists of a medic and a crisis worker. CAHOOTS […]
Press Release from Jeff Merkley, US Senator for Oregon After Down Payment on the Policy Included in Reconciliation Relief Legislation, CAHOOTS Act Builds on Proven Models to Help Americans with Mental Illness and Enhances Medicaid Funding to States Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and six senators […]
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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 […]