Public Access Interview with Mental Health Association of Portland
Channel: Jim Lockhart
Date: 2012-02-19

Interview with a staff member and a volunteer with the organization.

The Mental Health Association of Portland is a 501 C 3 nonprofit organization, tax identification 20-0138570, with no paid staff and governed by an all-volunteer board.  The organization is funded entirely through individual donations and receives no government or corporate funding.  The organization maintains a larger advisory council for individual advocacy tasks.

Our task is to help persons with a diagnosis of mental illness or addiction speak up and speak out -- and to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

The organization is the state's impartial and independent advocate for persons with mental illness and addiction.