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Gov. John Kitzhaber's budget proposal will likely mean the early release o f juvenile offenders from
facilities like this one in Grants Pass. The Oregon Youth Authority system is trying to transition to
less-expensive treatment options for juveniles. (AP photo)
Budget puts
more emphasis
on treatment
(AP) - Hundreds of Oregon juve
nile offenders are scheduled to be
released into less-restrictive envi
ronments and hundreds more now
under supervision could be released
back into their communities.
That’s the likely result of a major
budget cut to the Oregon Youth
Authority proposed by Gov. John
Kitzhaber as part of his attempt to
bridge a $3.5 billion budget gap that
youth will simply be m oved out of
a facility and put into the com m u
nity without supervision," Snyder
said.
Snyder said the Legislature could
do away with the cuts in its current
session, or at least dampen their
severity. The agency took a $33
million cut in Kitzhaber's budget
proposal, down almost 13 percent
to about $231 million for the bien
nium that begins on July 1.
Snyder said the agency doesn't
have a clear picture yet of ho w many
of its employees it will lay off, or
whether it will need to shutter one of
its 11 state facilities.
State Hospital Searches for Families
Hoping to find next of kin
for patients who died
While the Oregon State Hospital has made enormous
strides toward improving the care and treatment for the
patients of today, there is unfinished work in honoring
patients of previous generations.
Oregon State Hospital is the custodian of the cremated
remains of approximately 3,500 people who died while
living at Oregon State Hospital, Oregon State Tuberculo
sis Hospital, Mid-Columbia Hospital, Dammasch State
Hospital, Oregon State Penitentiary, and Fairview Train
ing Center between 1914 and the 1970s. These cremains
were never claimed.
The hospital hopes to change that and unite the
cremains with family members. To that end. the hospital
has posted online the list of names of the peoplè whose
cremains are in its possession. Hospital officials urge
anyone who thinks he or she may have a family member
who passed away at one of these institutions to
review the list. As soon as the connection can be
confirmed, the hospital will make arrangements for
the cremains to be sent to the family.
"It was the discovery of the Room of Forgotten
Souls in 2004 that served as the catalyst for the
construction of a new Oregon State Hospital and a
new devotion to improving the mental health care
system in our state," said Senate President Peter
Courtney. "We owe it to these former patients to
make every effort to reunite their cremains with their
families."
Courtney authored the law that allows Oregon State
Hospital to make public the names and dates of birth
of those former patients whose cremated remains are
in its possession. This information otherwise would
be protected by medical confidentiality laws.
The list of names for the deceased is posted on the
Oregon State Hospital website at oregon.gov/DHS/
mentalhealth/osh/cremains.
www.hodgocounsoling.com
Dr. H. L. Hodge. P h.D .
Licensed C hristian Counselor
Juvenile Lockups Hit the Skids
could expand with the next eco
nomic forecast.
The youth authority is sched
uled to lose 425 beds, all of those
likely coming from offenders who
were put under supervision at the
discretion of a judge.
Oregon Youth Authority spokes
woman Ann Snyder said the youth
authority’s most serious offenders
won’t be released, and those who
were sent to the system by a judge
— as opposed to a sentence from
the Department of Corrections —
will be moved into the less-restric
tive environments.
"There is no situation where
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