Mental Health & Addictions Council - Oct. 28, 2025

Welcome and Introductions

Business

• Approval of September Minutes
• Review of Group Norms
• Acronym List Updated

Director’s Update

• Overview of Local Plan Draft
• Summary of Community Engagement
• Next Steps

Discussion on Committees and Advisory Opportunities

• Current Committees
• Committee Updates
  • Advocacy and Legislative
  • Nominating Committee
  • Suicide Prevention Coalition
• MHAC Priorities for 2026

Roundtable and Wrap-up

• Council members
• Public Comment

• Teresa brought the meeting to order at 4:36pm
• Approval of August and October Minutes – Approved, Bo moved, Shari seconded
• Review of Group Norms - all in attendance in person - round robin
• Acronym List Updated - none

Director’s Update

• Update on Crisis Stabilization Center - Karen gave update, due to open mid-December, working on some facilities issues
• Deflection - Bill Stewart (DA) - update on HB 4002
  • Exceeded expectations
  • Some challenges - unique in the state, most are more focused on deflection - pre-charge/no filing
  • Conditional discharge - post charge - IMPACT court built on community court model
  • Program navigators - LoveOne - partnership with local providers
  • ASAM within 30 days
  • Connection to homeless outreach
  • Funding challenges with peer mentors
  • Stay from 90 days to a year, includes participation in treatment
  • Challenge is transitional piece at the end of treatment to ensure there is housing
  • 43% at least experience homelessness
  • Social referral - someone without a case but Law Enforcement or another partner say they are ready for a change - primarily through LoveOne
  • Court every Thursday 8:30 to 11:30 3C or 3D Red Soils
  • Challenge with Aid and Assist individuals - unable to serve
  • Return in January with a program navigator
  • Anamda Dennis - mobile pop-up parole and probation
• Update on Local Plan and CFAA – going to BCC December 9 – Policy Session
  • Shared input from BHD Staff on Needs and Gaps
  • Updated on CFAA

Discussion about how to improve connection between County BHD and community organizations – future topic

Karen to follow up with MHAC once final Local Plan has been submitted

Invite Bill to come back with Deflection presentation

Invite Judge Cathy Weber

Priorities for 2026 - work on together from 2025 list and update - Discussion

• Increasing support for BIPOC community -and youth voice - target community college instead of high school
  • Alana Russel - SUD director ODE - school credit for participation
  • Clackamas Community free clinic at the college campus - volunteers of medicine center
• Access to services - promote to #1
• how County is utilizing the BHRN
• MHAC support Board resolution for ROSC
• Deflection program coordinator and updates
• Crisis Stabilization Center - opening in December
• Role of BH supports in school districts - shared data received from schools
• Role of prevention - promoting success of prevention - HB 3321 - preventing SUD in youth
  • Look at what exists in OR
  • Look into $ that is earmarked for primary prevention to see whether OR actually uses it that way.
  • Accountability and reporting ADPC
• Access to services and equitable care -
• $4.7m BH Housing updates - is this transcending hope
• Role of mobile crisis response and use of data for funding (2027 session)

What did we accomplish in 2025? What do we still need to work on?

• Stabilization Center - opening in December
• Plans for Recovery Center Campus - funding gap for building
• Concept for prevention services in the community - what is needed, look at it has a whole - OR coalition for prevention professionals - HBB 3321 - mapping services site under - training OR prevention workforce.  CCC already members under r OCBH$
• Maintenance section for progress
• Recovery campus
  • Deflection

Additional Priorities for 2026

• Access to services includes mobile crisis
  • Support with increasing awareness, PO and DA inclusion
• Prevention priority
  • Social emotional learning (bill Stewart)

Follow up in January meeting to fine tune 2026 priorities

Get information from Bo on Advocacy Day 2026

Advocacy/Legislative Committee:

• Agreement to separate Legislate and Advocacy committees and discuss advocacy efforts in future (Advocacy Day)
• Advocacy Day (Bo) February 12 in Salem – sign up through the Oregon Recovers website

Nominating Committee:

• No updates and no current recruitment right now

Suicide Prevention Coalition Update:

• App is live on Android AND Apple-Compass to Connection
• feedback on app, some got incorporated and others did not.
• Challenge in updating things on the app.
• Google and Apple decided it is for 17 and up and so has an age restriction (barrier)
• Pam sending flyer to group –
• Teresa asked that we share the app and also let her know if there are any glitches.
• Monthly group on suicide prevention Quarterly (Donna Marie online) learn about resources in Clackamas - third Tuesday of the month

Council Members’ Summary:

• Clackamas theater night - Olliver - Dave has tickets
• Beto, grateful for the meeting tonight and the rich collaboration
• Public Comment
• Emily has friend at Youth Villages - invite to meeting
• Benjamin had a brief testimony about his experiences with services

The meeting adjourned at 6:36 pm

• Proposed agenda: TBD with Karen and Exec Committee