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Street Roots • July 15-21, 2016 TASK FORCE, fro m page 4 Wisconsin, have. In May, Andrew Nanton, a doctor with governor’s staff on April 7 to request the Oregon Youth Authority, authored a formation of a Children’s Cabinet This response to the task force’s findings and Cabinet is one of the task force’s key recommendations. It was his opinion that recommendations, and it would bring Oregon should increase access to together representatives from all three Multisystemic Therapy, an intensive branches of state government - and treatment program that involves everyone consolidate the various work groups and in a child’s environment, from family to task forces assigned to issues community, friends and facing children in state teachers. custody - to address ongoing “It is my reforms to juvenile understanding that this delinquency programs. modality was previously Hockaday said Brown is in " I f yo« compare the available in Oregon, but the process of “re-envisioning size of the system no longer formally in what a 21st-century behavioral in the 1990s to the effect,” he wrote. “It is health system in Oregon an effective intervention popula tion of kids looks like.” for Conduct Disorder and we were serving But that kind of system would be a useful tool for overhaul doesn’t happen then, and com« community interventions overnight, and there is an pare the size of the to avoid progression to immediate need for system now to the placements. foster care, detention and “We’re working very closely pop ula tion of kid s hospitalization.” we're serving now, with our agencies to figure In addition to meeting out what we can do to there's a d e fic it of with the governor’s prioritize the limited office, task force services." resources to better meet the members have been immediate needs and the PAULA BAUER, working with the Juvenile TR E A T M ENT SERVICES immediate challenges that we PROGRAM M A N A G E R A t Department Directors OREGON YO U TH are facing, and at the same A U T H O R IT Y Association to adopt time we work to do this uniform mental health overhaul, systemwide so that screening across the long term, we’re seeing better state’s 11 county juvenile outcomes,” Hockaday said. detention facilities; they He said it’s too early to are working to develop a know how these issues might materialize legislative concept to expand the legal in the governor’s budget. protections for juveniles taking McKechnie said the state should look psychotropic drugs within Oregon Youth to incorporating “treatment foster care” Authority facilities; Oregon Health into its system. It serves as an alternative Authority has begun a mapping project to to state hospital-level care and has been collect data on juvenile mental health shown to be effective with children needs in different regions; and Waller exhibiting challenging behavioral issues. It involves a higher level of home care and plans to present to judges across the state the task force’s plan and coach them on outside resources available to foster what to do when there are gaps in parents when they need to call for assistance. He said while the model was service, according to the task force’s developed in Oregon, the state has not implementation plan. figured out a way to fund and sustain such emily@streetroots. org a program as other states, such as News Page 5 Conditioned Friend by Slow Coyote Conditioned friend, I’ll love you I’ll represent you fight for you. You move from hopeless occupation to other predictable outcomes home is repetitiveness for you the world consists of routine commutes asking, where did all that time go? your health has suffered from all those speedy meals the meals are a chore and your free time is just glue that binds the workdays together. Oh, conditioned friend. I can spark your energy For traveling With a motivational Phone call You get excited, inspired Then, when the phone is placed On the hanger Your fear of the unknown and enslaving friends and family continue to knock some good old Common sense into you Conditioned friend! You must serve! Your health can wait, your self-discovery can happen secondarily Your fun having can get you high while the alcohol can numb your true calling for gratification Oh yes, conditioned friend You will be taken care of. relinquish all those silly internal urges of that strange soul you have because REALITY is waiting for you to serve Everyone in this REALITY all around you is serving just the same and they will help you get through the inconsistent unhappy portions You will inevitably experience deep in that strange soul of yours, Conditioned friend. Oregon Judicial Department.
