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Mental health

‘I knew if I was going to win, it had to be as myself’: Miss Clark County 2025 dedicates platform to mental health advocacy

April 23, 2025, 6:08am Clark County Health

Sandra Fachiol, a self-professed nerd and childhood tomboy, never saw herself as the pageant type. Read story

‘What we’re trying to do is heal a community’: NAMI program helps businesses learn to deal with people in crisis

April 18, 2025, 6:10am Clark County Health

Communicate. Assess. Listen. Mediate. Read story

Alicia Stowe, 36, sits at the defense table Tuesday during her trial for sexual misconduct with a minor at the Clark County Courthouse. She is accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year-old patient while she was a skills coach at Daybreak Youth Services’ Brush Prairie facility.

Accuser testifies in sexual misconduct trial of Daybreak Youth Services counselor

April 15, 2025, 4:37pm Clark County News

A man recounted to a Clark County Superior Court jury Tuesday the sexual contact he said he had when he was 16 years old with his former skills coach at Daybreak Youth Services’ now-closed Brush Prairie facility. Read story

Daybreak Youth Services is pictured in Brush Prairie in 2019. It's now closed.

Plans advance for recovery, mental health center at former Daybreak Youth Services building in Brush Prairie

April 11, 2025, 10:32am Clark County News

Plans for a 54-bed recovery and mental health center for youth at the former Daybreak Youth Services building in Brush Prairie are still underway, despite a lawsuit filed by Daybreak against the state making its way through court. Read story

Proposed WA tax on social media platforms would fund support for youth behavioral health

April 8, 2025, 10:43am Northwest

State lawmakers are considering a new tax on social media platforms to help fund behavioral health care for Washington youth. Read story

Community advocate Nikki Taylor, standing, joins local service providers, community partners and grassroots advocates Monday at Couve Collective Recovery Cafe in downtown Vancouver to discuss the sudden suspension of Columbia River Mental Health Services’ programs.

‘Let’s not panic, but let’s prepare for the future’: Clark County reeling from Columbia River Mental Health’s abrupt suspension of services

April 5, 2025, 6:14am Business

As Columbia River Mental Health Services explores ways to restore behavioral health programs it suspended last week, patients and advocates are still reeling. Read story

Columbia River Mental Health Services names Craig Pridemore as interim CEO

Craig Pridemore and supporters react to early election results at Grant House.

Columbia River Mental Health Services, which abruptly suspended some operations March 24 due to financial woes, announced Thursday it has hired its former CEO back. Also Thursday, the Cowlitz Tribal Foundation announced that it extended $1.6 million in emergency funding to the agency. Read story

Columbia River Mental Health finds means to offer some services but cash flow problems that started last year remain

Government officials join staff and supporters at the opening of Columbia River Mental Health Services’ NorthStar Clinic in August 2023.

After announcing earlier this week it would suspend operations, Columbia River Mental Health Services has found a way to continue providing select behavioral health programs, including methadone distribution at its NorthStar Clinic — at least for now. Read story

Columbia River Mental Health Services suspends operations

Columbia River Mental Health Services' main office is at 6926 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd., Vancouver. The nonprofit has suspended operations.

March 24, 2025, 12:30pm Business

Financial woes forced Columbia River Mental Health Services to suddenly suspend operations Monday. The move leaves thousands of people who rely on the Vancouver-based nonprofit for counseling and psychiatric treatment in the lurch. Read story