Sobering center and van transport service proposed for Multnomah County on ambitious timeline

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KATU Published: Mar. 02, 2024, 11:17 a.m.

Summary

Maxine Bernstein reports on a plan LMC helped prepare.

Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards late Friday sent a draft proposal to county commissioners and city officials after a core group met weekly since late January to help design and plan a new sobering center in Multnomah County.Multnomah County
A 35- to 50-bed drop-off sobering center would be open around-the-clock in Multnomah County for emergency first-responders to take people suffering from acute intoxication under a draft plan getting fast-track treatment more than four years after the old sobering center closed.