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April 17, 2019 The Page 3 CAREERS Special Edition INSIDE L O C A L N E W S Week in Review C ALENDAR page 2 page 6 photo by D anny p eterson /t he p ortlanD o bserver Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw and actor Russell Hornsby (center) join other community members in a discussion about the interactions between police and communities of color following a film screening of “The Hate You Give”—a fictional film that Hornsby co-stars in about a black youth who is shot and killed by a police officer after a hairbrush he had is mistaken for a weapon. Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church Pastor J.W. Matt Hennessee and ‘No Hate Zone’ creator Sam Sachs (pictured in front) helped organize Friday’s event. page 9 M ETRO Emotions Run High Chief joins screening of ‘The Hate You Give’ D anny p eterson t he p ortlanD o bserver Emotions ran high during a discussion with Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw, actor Russell Hornsby, and community members of color at Vancouver Ave- by nue First Baptist Church Friday, following a screening of the critically acclaimed 2018 film “The Hate You Give,” which Hornsby co-starred in, and delves deep into themes of officer-involved shooting deaths of black Americans, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the sometimes tense relationship between police and communities of color. C ontinueD on p age 6 Toran Offers a Plan for Wapato New proposal for never used jail pages 7-11 by Arts & ENTERTAINMENT O PINION C LASSIFIEDS D anny p eterson t he p ortlanD o bserver A new vision for the never-used Wapato jail been drafted by Vol- unteers of America. This time the proposal is to create a 100-bed residential treatment program for addiction and mental health ser- vices for men and women. Kay Toran, a long time leader from Portland’s African Ameri- can community, who has directed Volunteers of American Oregon since 1999, is working on secur- ing funding, going back to gov- ernment agencies and the private sector with pleas to help make that dream a reality. Jordan Schnitzer, who pur- chased Wapato after Multnomah County rejected proposals to re- make the jail into a homeless shel- ter because of the cost and dis- tance from other public services, has reached out to Toran in sup- port of making the north Portland site a resource for the VOA’s ad- diction and mental health services. Dubbed the Community Well- ness Center, it would be “a col- photo by D anny p eterson / t he p ortlanD o bserver pages 12-13 pages 14 Kay Toran, president of Volunteers of America Oregon, has proposed a re- envisioning of the never-used former Wapato jail site in north Portland. laboration among treatment pro- viders, social service agencies, hospital care providers and uni- versities to provide holistic ser- vices to clients who need support in behavioral health, substance use disorder and issues related to homelessness,” according to a one page summary of the proposal. “I believe our vision is very different. We’re not talking about trying to use it for the homeless, we aren’t talking about trying to use it for a jail, we are talking about providing a resource to a population that we know have high needs in this community,” Toran told the Portland Observer. The facility would not be ex- clusively for seniors, as has been previously reported, but all adults 18 and up, Toran clarified, with a special focus on those touched by the criminal justice system. It would be similar to two existing residential centers that VOA op- erates—one for men and one for women—in Portland. Schnitzer called the idea “fab- ulous.” He acquired the property last spring and has been exploring the idea of repurposing it for a fa- cility that helps the homeless ever since. He’s also considered lev- C ontinueD on p age 14
