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Mental Health Out of the Shadows
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Advocates
recognized for
leadership
Former Oregon State Sen. Avel
Gordly and Oregon Partnership
Founder and Chief Executive Of
ficer Judy Cushing are being hon
ored for their leadership on mental
health issues.
The two local women have been
selected by the National Alliance
on Mental Illness of Oregon to be
the co-recipients of the annual Gor
don and Sharon Smith New Free
dom Award.
"Sharon and I are delighted that
Avel and Judy will receive the award
that bears our name. Both have been
courageous and eloquent leaders in
the effort to bring mental health's
subordinate status and suicide's
brutal toll out of the shadows. They
are most deserving recipients of the
New Freedom Award, and of the
gratitude of all Oregonians,” said
former U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith.
Gordly represented north and
northeast Portland in the Oregon
State House of Representatives from
1991-1997, and in the Oregon State
Senate from 1997-2009. She was the
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Judy C ushing
first African-American female State
Senator in Oregon's history. A Port
land native and a graduate of Port
land State University, she spent
much of her life has a community
organizer and activist for the disad
vantaged. In 2008, Oregon Health
Sciences University opened the
Avel Gordly Center for Healing,
dedicated to multicultural mental
health and psychiatric services.
Judy Cushing founded Oregon
Partnership (now Lines for Life) in
1993. The statewide nonprofit is
dedicated to substance abuse pre
vention and education, and suicide
and crisis intervention services. In
2003, President Bush appointed
Cushing to the President's Advi
sory Commission on Drug-Free
Com munities, and in 2010, the
Obama Administration appointed
her to the Executive Committee of
the National Action Alliance for
Suicide Prevention.
Gordly and Cushing will receive
their award at a dinner to be held at
the Downtown Waterfront Marriott
on Oct. 9. More information about
the dinner can be obtained at
namior.org or by calling 503-230-
8009.
Dementia Cases to Double Worldwide
(AP) — Cases of dem entia — that figure is set to double to 65.7
and the heavy social and financial m illion by 2030, the U.N. health
burdens associated with them — agency said W ednesday. In 2050,
are set to soar in the com ing de it expects dem entia cases to triple
cades as life expectancy and m edi to 115.4 million.
cal care im prove in poorer coun
Most dementia patients are cared
tries, the W orld Health O rganiza for by relatives who shoulder the
tion says.
bulk of the current estimated annual
Some 35.6 m illion people were cost of $604 billion. And the finan
living with dem entia in 2010, but cial burden is expected to rise even
faster than the number of cases,
WHO said in its first substantial
report on the issue.
Dem entia, a brain illness that
affects memory, behavior and the
ability to perform even comm on
tasks, affects m ostly older people.
About 70 percent of cases are
b e lie v e d to be c a u s e d by
Alzheimer's.
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More Births for Unwed Couples
(AP) — Health officials say
nearly 1 in 4 babies are born to
unm arried couples who are living
together, a significant jum p from a
decade ago.
The governm ent previously
said more than 40 percent of births
are to unwed m others. But a re
port released Thursday offers new
detail showing m ost unwed births
occur in cohabiting couples.
The Centers for Disease C on
trol and Prevention study was
based on face-to-face interviews
with more than 22,000 men and
women during 2006 through 2010.
About 23 percent of the re
ported births were to unm arried
heterosexual couples who were
living together when the child was
born. That was up from 14 percent
when a sim ilar study was done in
2002. The CDC did not speculate
on reasons for the increase.
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