Dr. DeAun Nelson Wants to Change How We Think About Weight and Health Care

Since the start of quarantine, the internet has been flooded with social media posts and articles disparaging weight gain during the pandemic, birthing the term “the Quarantine 15.” According to Dr. DeAun Nelson, those posts and articles aren’t helping anyone.

Safer Space Looks to Create a Therapy Network Exclusively for the Black Lives Matter Movement

Along with mayoral hopeful and activist Teressa Raiford, Anita Randolph—a neuroscientist originally from Atlanta who’s now doing medical research into addiction—have teamed up to start the Safer Space program, a peer-to-peer mental health support group for the BIPOC community and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Black Mental Health Care Providers Are Greatly Underrepresented in Oregon

Black Oregonians can find few mental health care providers who share their experiences.

New Healing Collective Radical Rest Believes if You Free the Body, the Mind Will Follow

Established in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Radical Rest is an autonomous collection of local healers offering free and donation-based services to BIPOC activists working the front lines of Portland’s continuing protests.

Oregon May Soon Legalize the Use of Magic Mushrooms as Mental Health Treatment. Many Portlanders Aren’t Waiting.

Some Portlanders are taking a more constructive approach and finding solace in a drug that at first glance seems purely escapist: psychedelic mushrooms. But talk to almost anyone who has begun tripping recently and you learn that most of them are confronting the end times, not running from them.

Audit Finds Oregon Mental Health System Is Failing Children, Staff

“Are you leaving too?”

Self-Isolation Is Exacerbating Mental Health Issues. A Portland Startup Aims to Help.

With her startup Kamber, she’s hoping to give young people some of the tools she didn’t have growing up. The app, which is out for beta testing this week, combines several coping strategies and educational platforms into one place.

A Formerly Homeless Man From the Oregon Coast Has a Plan to Save Wapato Jail