Cahoots and White Bird, Creating a Restorative Path Forward
The Network will be calling a Community Circle to discuss the current issues we are seeing with Cahoots and White Bird.
We honor the years of work White Bird Clinic has done for our community, especially through the CAHOOTS program, which became a national model for crisis response. But recent decisions by its leadership including, union busting, mass layoffs, and apparent financial mismanagement have broken the community’s trust.
White Bird has shown it can no longer be trusted to run CAHOOTS. For the safety and well-being of our neighbors, we must ensure a strong and fair transition of CAHOOTS services to Willamette Valley Crisis Care (WVCC), the nonprofit founded by former CAHOOTS workers who bring both experience and a pro-labor commitment.
White Bird still has an important role to play in providing other health and social services, and we all want White Bird to be the strong, trusted organization it once was. That means accountability, transparency, and a commitment to restorative justice.
Your voice matters. Join us for a community meeting to discuss the actions we must take to:
- Support the transition of CAHOOTS to WVCC.
- Hold White Bird accountable so they can correct course and regain the community’s trust.
- Provide a path for White Bird to restore the trust they have lost within our community.
Community Circle – White Bird and Cahoots creating a Restorative Path Forward
Date: Saturday, September 20th
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Theo’s Coffee, 199 W 8th Ave. Eugene
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