Mental Health Association of Portland

Mental Health Association of Portland

The Mental Health Association of Portland is a charitable organization interested in education, advocacy, research, and service about mental illness in Portland, Oregon. The organization is the state’s impartial and independent advocate for persons with mental illness and addiction and acts as the fiscal agent for projects defined and done by persons with mental illness or in early recovery from addiction.

Described by The Oregonian newspaper as, "Oregon’s foremost independent advocate for persons with mental illness and addiction," the all-volunteer organization has exposed routine abuse of persons with mental illness by police, jails, governments and the psychiatric industry. Long-standing board members include social justice advocates Will Hall and Jason Renaud, journalist Jenny Westberg, and attorney Chris O'Connor.

Recent projects include the documentary film 'Alien Boy: the Life and Death of James Chasse'; the peer-run support group Portland Hearing Voices, part of the international Hearing Voices Movement; the nation's widest circulating peer-edited newsletter Eyes & Ears; exposing dangers for patients at the Oregon State Hospital; and political advocacy in response to the police-caused deaths of James Chasse, Aaron Campbell, Jackie Collins, Keaton Otis, Dickie Dow and too many others.

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