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Alternative homeless shelter providers sought Portland and Multnomah County leaders are offering $3 million for new shelter options. Portland and Multnomah County leaders want to expand sanctioned shelter options for the homeless to include a wider range of solutions, such as outdoor villages, safe vehicle parking programs, modular shelters and more. The city-county Joint Office of Homeless Service began soliciting qualified operators for such alternatives on Wednesday, Feb. 17. Responses to the Request for Programmatic Qualifications — or RFPQ for short — must be submitted by Ma...

Feb 17, 2021 The pilot for Portland Street Response (PSR), an innovative non-police response to assist people experiencing houselessness or a behavioral/mental health crisis, hit the streets for the first time on Tuesday, February 16th. Beginning at 10 a.m., the team will started taking calls dispatched from 911 to offer an alternative to police for people suffering mental and behavioral health challenges. The team includes a program manager, a firefighter/paramedic, a mental health crisis clinician, and two community health workers. Each team member trained for the past month to prepare for ...

Portland businesses are navigating wave of window smashing and burglaries with little help from city Updated Feb 17, 2021; Posted Feb 17, 2021 Work crews on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, clean up damage and board up windows in Northeast Portland's Hollywood District after protesters the previous night damaged and vandalized 27 businesses and workspaces, police said. Facebook Share Hanh Truong arrived at Fujiyama Sushi Bar & Grill early Jan. 28 to find the floor of the restaurant covered with broken glass. Security footage showed someone driving up to the Southeast 82nd Avenue sushi bar before h...

Feb 17, 2021 The pilot for Portland Street Response (PSR), an innovative non-police response to assist people experiencing houselessness or a behavioral/mental health crisis, hit the streets for the first time on Tuesday, February 16th. Beginning at 10 a.m., the team will started taking calls dispatched from 911 to offer an alternative to police for people suffering mental and behavioral health challenges. The team includes a program manager, a firefighter/paramedic, a mental health crisis clinician, and two community health workers. Each team member trained for the past month to prepare for ...

Flower, pre-rolls, edibles, carts and more. These 4 Days of 420 are for you. In local news: • A Springfield restaurant called Along Came Trudy is facing over $9,000 in state fines for violating pandemic safety protocols. Oregon OSHA's report on the restaurant mentions that they were up against "armed people standing outside the business who threatened regulatory agencies and their staff members." I guess what they said was true: Trudy really did come along, and she brought her shotgun with her. • Some Oregon pharmacies will starting getting COVID-19 vaccine doses next week for the first...