Oregon’s Democratic U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, have secured more than $39 million in federal funding for 39 projects in the state to address behavioral health, health care, education and infrastructure needs.
Some of them are:
- $3 million for Central Oregon Community College to expand their campus in Madras. The funding will go toward construction on the campus for programs to prepare students for careers in health care.
- $2.98 million for the University of Oregon to create a bachelor’s level program within the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health to prepare students for pediatric behavioral health work to address critical shortages in this sector.
- $2.5 million to Clackamas County for the construction of the Center for Treatment and Recovery, a recovery center for people struggling with drug addiction. T
- $1.6 million for Lines for Life to hire additional staff and conduct youth workforce and volunteer training to expand the reach of YouthLine, their statewide youth suicide prevention program.
- $1.6 million for Lane Community College to purchase equipment for their new Industry and Trades Education Center. This project will provide apprenticeship training in construction technology, manufacturing technology and other skilled labor sectors.
- $1.5 million for the city of Portland to expand Portland Fire & Rescue’s Mobile Medication for Opioid Use Disorder pilot program to reduce overdoses.
- $1 million to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians to purchase a mobile mammography and X-ray unit. This equipment will help tribal members in a five-county region of southwest Oregon.
- $816,000 for Valley Family Health Care, Inc. to implement medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in eastern Oregon county jails. The funding will go to sheriffs and jail medical staff to provide medication and addiction treatment counseling in Malheur, Union, Baker and Umatilla Counties.
This story first appeared in the Oregon Capital Chronicle.
