Mental Health & Addictions Council - July 22, 2025

Meeting materials

Free language assistance services are available for this meeting.

Agenda

TimeTopic
4:30-4:45Welcome and Introductions - Teresa
4:45-5:00Business o Approval of May Minutes, no meeting in June o Review of Group Norms o Acronym List Updated
5:00-5:25Status of County Financial Assistance Agreement (CFAA) and new requirement of BH Local Plan (attached)- Mary
5:25-5:40Committee Updates - All o Advocacy Committee / Legislative Updates o Nominating Committee Resignation: Sarah Schindlbeck-4D Recovery o Suicide Prevention Coalition Update o Director Update: New BHD Director and orientation
5:40-6:00Roundtable - All o Public Comment
6:00Wrap-Up Next meeting: Cancel August 26, 2025

Minutes

Members Attending: Teresa Melville, Pam Pearce, Sara Clement, Dave Hunt, Sheri Price, Bo Brinson Members Unexcused: Members Excused: Cathy Horey, Ashley Cross, Mary Ann Andrews, Beto Contreras, Catherine LeJeal, Rae Gordon, Adam Caba Staff: Mary Rumbaugh

ItemDiscussionAction/Follow up
Call to Order, Establish Quorum (6 members), Approval of Minutes
  • Teresa brought the meeting to order at 4:40pm
  • No guests
  • Review of group norms
  • Approval of May Minutes. Sheri Price: 1st Bo Brinson: 2nd. Approved by members
  • Acronym list updates per request from May meeting
 
County Financial Assistance Agreement (CFAA) and BH Local Plan Review-Mary
  • Updated the group on changes to the CFAA-rather than unique service lines, core service areas were developed in collaboration with state and counties with the goal that the funding can be flexibility used within those core areas.
  • Expectations that funding is prioritized for populations like Aid and Assist, civil commitment and mobile crisis. Other areas are based on “subject to availability of funds” language-which has created tension with partners on the contract.
  • The new contract was to be effective 7/1 but several counties pushed back on the language so the current agreement was extended by 6 months while language continues to be negotiated
  • New requirement-BH Local Plan. Initial first draft plus budget is due Oct 1st and final plan to be submitted to OHA by 12/31/25. Mary walked through the Local Plan and answered questions.
BHD has contracted with Kathy Turner to help with the community engagement/listening sessions. Mary has suggested the August MHAC meeting for this session-to be confirmed
Committee updates - All
  1. Advocacy/Legislative Committee:
  • Long session ended. $65M passed to support the development of more secure residential to address the Aid and Assist population. Clackamas believes that we will see a portion of that funding going to the Clackamas Recovery Campus. The ask is $20M-likely won't see that amount approved.
  • Dave: Civil commitment bill got folded into a larger bill. Passed. Unfortunately a lot of fiscal asks did not pass due to the budget forecast
  • Pam: Prevention bill passed. Kept is simple for a reason
  1. Nominating Committee:
  • Sarah Schindlbeck-4D Resigned
  1. Suicide Prevention Coalition Update:
    • Youth app is moving forward with soft launch in September
  2. Director Update:
  • Karen Kern starts August 18th and has a comprehensive onboarding plan
  • August meeting? Possibly conduct the listening session/community engagement for the BH Local Plan with MHAC
  • September meeting-deeper meet and greet with Karen and MHAC members
  • Stabilization Center is on track for completion for Oct and expect to open in December
  • Commissioner West has been assigned to our board. Good for us to review relevant topics and we should think about specific invites for him to attend.
  • H3S has a table for the 9/25 at 6 pm NAMI Clackamas event with 7 seats available-let Mary know if you can attend (Teresa and Guest; Sara, Sheri, New BH Director)
 
Round Table
  • Teresa Melville- Opportunity for prevention discussion with law enforcement
  • Sara Clement- Parent advisory boards; Infant mental health; traveling to support these efforts. Interested in working with county self-sufficiency team
  • Bo Brinson-N/A
  • Dave Hunt- QPR class online this Thursday
  • Pam Pearce- Youth Forum-3 day event in Redmond for youth focused on upstream prevention and support the passed legislation.
  • Sheri Price-N/A
 
Recap; Summarize action items; Agenda item suggestion - All

The meeting adjourned at 6:05 pm

Proposed agenda: August-listening session for the BH Local Plan