Blog Archives - Columbia River Mental Health Services

A photo from the 2022 Butterfly Ball gala, with two large crafted white butterflies suspended from the ceiling of the large ballroom.

Columbia River’s Spring Gala: The Butterfly Ball

Clark County is in the midst of a fentanyl and methamphetamine epidemic that escalated since 2020, with overdose death rates climbing in our area by almost 100%. We see the consequences in local media stories detailing tragic overdose deaths on our streets. It’s Columbia River’s job to provide the proper services and care that lead…

Meet Maranda of Healthy Transitions

Maranda Heckler, Healthy Transitions Program Case Manager and Certified Peer Counselor, has a long, meaningful relationship with Columbia River Mental Health Services. When Maranda was 16, her Columbia River journey began as a client when she started receiving therapy through our outpatient program. Years later, while working on her undergraduate degree in psychology, she began…

Columbia River Welcomes New Board Member

Columbia River Mental Health Services is pleased to announce the appointment of a new board member, Jasmine Rucker Tolbert. Jasmine, who earned a BA in social science with a concentration in personnel psychology/human resources from Washington State University Vancouver, currently serves as Vice President of People and Culture at YWCA Clark County. She recently concluded…

Mobile Health Unit One Year Later: Your Gifts Make it Happen

With the help of your support, we launched the Columbia River Mobile Health unit just over a year ago. Caring for the Community Our mobile team, with a well-equipped van, visits the encampments of unhoused people. They may be victims of domestic violence, elderly individuals who lost their homes, veterans, or people dealing with a…

This is a drawing of what the inside of new NorthStar Treatment Center is projected to look like when it opens.

New NorthStar Treatment Center Opening Soon

Columbia River Mental Health Services will soon be relocating the offices of its NorthStar opioid treatment facility to a location a half-mile from Columbia River’s main campus. The new facility offers substantial improvements for the staff and NorthStar’s clients. Facts about NorthStar Treatment Center As part of the relocation process, we have been answering questions…

Teenage girl talks during support group meeting

Columbia River’s Options Youth Program

The last few years have been hard for many young people. Many independent research studies have reported a disturbing increase in the number of youth seeking mental health counseling since 2019...

Your Support Helps the Unhoused People in Our Community

No two unhoused people are the same, and their needs reflect that. Since your support helped the launch of our Mobile Health team this past...

NorthStar’s Same-Day Treatment Transformed Her Life

Dena Hampton thought she had kicked her opioid addiction for good. She was clean and sober...

Night Crisis Team Closes Mobile Outreach Loop

In most communities, when a local resident experiences a behavioral health crisis after nightfall, it falls to first responders to intervene...

Launch of Mobile Columbia River Night Crisis Program

Columbia River Mental Health Services will unveil a service starting this week that is intended to both provide more direct mental health counseling.

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