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Time was, the Fire Department responded only to fires.  Today, 67% of Portland Fire & Rescue's calls are Emergency Medical Services (EMS) related -- heart attack, etc.  Over time, to address a growing need, society has decided that the scope and mission of PF&R needed to be expanded.  

Is time that the scope and mission of Portland Police Department gets expanded so that they DO become the first responders to mental health calls because PPD are the folks on the street?

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Yes, this issue needs to be addressed on a community-level, but to trash the Crisis Triage Center (CTC) and say that the staffing and quality of care was incompetent, is insulting.  I do not think it is NAMI's position that the CTC should have been closed.  Chris Bouneff should know that the (former) staff of the CTC are the current staff of the in-patient and out-patient facilities throughout Multnomah County.  To reference lobotomies (?!) was an unnecessary and insulting.  I was not impressed with his comments.

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10 years ago (or so), the County ran the Crisis Triage Center -- a place on the Eastside to bring people experiencing mental health crises.  Ask the County representative why the CTC closed.

I think the response will reflect the priority (low) that society places on dealing with mental health issues.

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