said the drop-in centers would offer teens a more comfortable setting than a school counselor or psychiatrist office where teens could talk about mental-health issues. The bill would require the ...

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From left: Rhys Scholes, Multnomah County Office of Government Relations policy ... a new Multnomah County courthouse and money for mental health crisis services, officials said Thursday.

"Too often we talk about a system like it's something out there somewhere," John Tote, the executive director of the Mental Health Association ... after Easley leaves office in January.

But while Gunther and DeStefano have pledged to fight the shutdown, Pataki has a most unlikely ally in his corner — the state's mental-health lobby ... outside Pataki's office during a ...