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Wednesday • January 27, 2016
Established in 1970
Committed to Cultural Diversity
Architectural drawings show the new Cascadia Garlington Center coming this year to Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. in the Eliot Neighborhood. The development will
include a new community-centered healthcare model that combines mental health care and addiction services with primary care, in addition to addressing the need for
affordable housing with an adjacent 52-unit apartment building.
New Center Brings Hope
Garlington Center
expansion to
begin this year
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Northeast Portland’s Garlington Center, a longtime
provider of mental health care and addiction services in
the African American community, is scheduled to break
ground this year on a new $20 million health clinic that
will integrate behavior health care with primary care and
address the increasing need for affordable housing.
The major development by Cascadia Behavioral Health
was put together with the help of local donors and or-
ganizations. One of those groups, FamilyCare Health, a
Medicare and Medicaid insurer serving lower-income res-
idents, recently announced it was supporting the construc-
tion with a gift of $500,000.
The Garlington Center was named and dedicated in
by
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Local donors and organizations come together to support a “Building a Culture of Caring” campaign to support
the construction of a new Cascadia Garlington Center that will serve the African American community and other
local residents. Pictured (from left) are FamilyCare Health President Jeff Heatherington, Multnomah County
Commissioner Loretta Smith, Cascadia Behavioral Health President Derald Walker and FamilyCare Health Board
Chair Robin Richardson.