BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Year 2 of the Supportive Housing Services Measure presents a generational opportunity to better integrate behavioral healthcare and homelessness services
The Joint Office is launching more than 10 new programs to address behavioral health, from outreach to shelter to transitional housing to permanent supportive housing. This $25 million set of investments, including new and ongoing programs, includes:
- Shelter beds and bridge housing at the first-of-its-kind Behavioral Health Resource Center, set to open this fall in downtown Portland.
- A motel-based shelter program, called Cultivating Community(link is external), that serves people with severe behavioral health needs who have struggled in other shelter spaces.
- A new behavioral-health-focused housing placement team.