mental health crisis Archives - Columbia River Mental Health Services

A rendering of the new NorthStar 2.0 facility, to open in Fall 2023.

NorthStar 2.0: Expanded Opioid Treatment Clinic Coming Soon!

Clark County is in the midst of a fentanyl epidemic that has escalated over the last three years, with overdose death rates climbing in our area by almost 100%. Columbia River Mental Health Services is leading to bring solutions to our community’s problems. Operating Southwest Washington’s largest opiate treatment program at the NorthStar Treatment Clinic,…

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…

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.