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The Skanner News - Mother-Daughter Mental Health Professionals Launch Organization for Black Professional Women

Darcelle Dance wants to create a strong infrastructure for Black professional women in Portland. “When Black women in particular move here to Portland, there isn’t this infrastructure to get them into the community here, to answer the question ‘How do I fit in here? Where are the people at?’” Dance told The Skanner. ....

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City Council Votes Against Fully Funding Portland Street Response in 2021-22 Budget

by Alex Zielinski
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May 13, 2021 at 9:30 pm
Kathleen Marie / Portland Mercury
Portland City Council voted against including funds in the 2021-22 city budget that would have allowed the city s Portland Street Response pilot program to expand citywide within the year.
Commissioners made the decision during a Thursday council meeting on Mayor Ted Wheeler s $5.7 billion proposed city budget, which Wheeler initially released on April 29. The Thursday meeting focused on amendments city commissioners want to see added to Wheeler s proposed budget. One of those amendments, proposed by City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, focused on putting $3.6 million towards Portland Street Response, a program housed within Portland Fire and Rescue that provides non-police emergency response to 911 calls related to mental health crises or regarding unhoused people. The program is currently operating as a pilot confined to a one-van team of ....

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