Host Karen James speaks with Shannon Wight, Deputy Director, Partnership for Safety & Justice and Cleo Tung, Program officer, NW Health Foundation about legislative priorities and PSJ’s Advocacy Day on April 16th in Salem, Oregon:
SB 477-Justice Reinvestment Equity Program. Eighteen organizations across Oregon receive program funding to meet three critical community safety goals: reduce incarceration and racial disparities in the criminal justice system, advance healing, and promote community safety in Oregon. We must continue to invest in victim and survivor services, violence prevention, reentry services that support people returning home after their sentence, and diversion programs that safely redirect youth away from incarceration and toward accountability.
Protect Life-Saving Addiction Services: protect Measure 110 Behavioral Health Funding. Before Measure 110, Oregon ranked 50th in access to addiction treatment, despite having some of the nation’s highest addiction rates. Since then, we have invested over $430 million in the state’s harm reduction and recovery services. Today, Behavioral Health Resource Networks (BHRNs) services are available in all 36 counties and 9 tribes.
HB 2555-Family sentencing alternative. FSAP has effectively reduced unnecessary incarceration and kept children out of the foster care system by helping caregivers be accountable for harm through local supervision, treatment, housing, employment, and parenting classes. By allowing more eligible people to qualify for services, we can better serve Oregon’s diverse racial and cultural communities, keep more families together, and improve outcomes for kids across the state.
PSJ is Oregon’s leading public safety & criminal justice reform organization transforming society’s response to crime thru innovative solutions that insure accountability, racial equity and healing.
Northwest Health Foundation seeks to advance, support and promote health in Oregon and Southwest Washington. By providing grants to initiatives, forming partnerships with health and community leaders, and advocating for policy change, we are furthering our vision of giving every person the opportunity to lead a healthy life.
https://www.northwesthealth.org/
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/
BHRNs https://www.oregon.gov/oha/hsd/amh/pages/measure110-resources.aspx