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photo by C ourtesy C asCaDia b ehavioral h ealthCare
A grand opening ribbon is cut on Friday in celebration of the new Garlington Campus at 3036 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., a new home for the Garlington Health
Center serving disadvantaged populations, and the new affordable Garlington Place apartments. Pictured from left are Cascadia Behavioral Health President and CEO
Derald Walker, Emmett Wheatfall, Andrew Colas, Mayor Ted Wheeler, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury, Michelle DePasse, and Michael
Buonocore.
New Garlington Campus
Expansion adds
health services,
housing
D anny p eterson
t he p ortlanD o bserver
Governmental officials and com-
munity members joined Cascadia
Behaviorial Healtchare’s
grand
by
opening and ribbon cutting ceremo-
ny Friday to celebrate the new Gar-
lington Center Campus, home to the
Garlington Health Center and Gar-
lington Place Apartments at 3036
N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The center delivers integrated
healthcare in the form of mental
health, substance use support, pri-
mary care, and wellness services
and has an adjacent 52-unit afford-
able housing apartment building
where Cascadia clients, veterans,
and displaced north and northeast
Portland residents can call home.
Named after the late Rev. Dr.
John W. Garlington Jr. and his wife,
Yvonne Garlington, who together
established a compassionate voice
for Portland’s African American
population within the social ser-
vices community, the center hon-
ors the Garlington’s devotion to
improving the areas of education,
employment,
police-community
relations and their ministry to indi-
viduals and families experiencing
poverty, hunger, and homelessness.
The Garlingtons, who died tragi-
cally in a car accident in 1986, were
survived by a large family, many
members of which spoke and were
present at the ceremony.