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The State’s Largest Provider of Community Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Services Seeks a Bailout Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare s budget crunch could not come at a worse time. Updated February 3 More than 18,000 Oregonians depend on Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare for treatment of serious mental illness and addiction, conditions that for many have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Portland nonprofit employs nearly 1,000 workers and provides services at 75 facilities, ranging from walk-in crisis centers to supportive housing for more than 700 clients, including at its new 52-unit Garlington Center apartments on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.