Funding

By Andrew Shaughnessy, August 4, 2020, Portland Tribune. Empowered by a federal grant, George Fox University doctor of psychology trains students to provide care for vulnerable. (Editor's note: The name and some identifying information about this patient have been changed). On the day that Cara Bell walked through the doors of the Providence Medical Group building in Newberg, she was at the end of her rope. Plagued by a history of trauma, abuse and meth, Bell was homeless, in and out of jail...

By Evan Schreiber, June 18, 2020, KATU. PORTLAND, Ore. — Vital funding is coming to the state of Oregon to try and fill the treatment gap that exists between those who are addicted and those who can get access to help. Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced it's among 44 centers across the nation to be awarded federal funding to increase and enhance training of health care professionals to treat people with substance use disorder. The Oregon Addiction Medicine Fellowship at...

By Nicole Thill-Pacheco, October 4, 2019 for the Columbia County Spotlight Funds will be expended over two years to provide training for mentors for program The St. Helens School District was selected to receive a nearly $200,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Education's Youth Development Council to further develop a program designed to engage community members through caring relationships. The school district will receive the grant over a two-year period during the 2019-21 biennium...