© 2024 KLCC

KLCC
136 W 8th Ave
Eugene OR 97401
541-463-6000
klcc@klcc.org

Contact Us

FCC Applications
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

CAHOOTS Extends Reach To More High Schools Starting This Fall

White Bird Clinic's website.

A mobile crisis counseling service is making itself available to more area high schools this fall. KLCC’s Brian Bull reports.

CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) will hold weekly clinics for students in Thurston High School, Springfield High School and Gateways.  It’s an expansion of services already being provided at a handful of other schools in the Eugene-Springfield area.

Credit Rose Berch / Flickr.com
/
Flickr.com

Ashley Barnhill-Hubbard is CAHOOT’s School Outreach Liaison. She says about a fourth of their calls are from youth and families in crisis, and her staff is open to tackling any physical or mental health issue.

“We can help with pretty much anything," Barnhill-Hubbard tells KLCC.  "We’re great creative problem solvers.  And we are really happy to help youth and families, and teachers and the staff that also do that work.”

The school clinics will consist of a crisis counselor and a medic for two hours a week. A 2017 report by Lane County Public Health says more than a third of high school juniors suffer from depression, and one in five have contemplated suicide.

Copyright 2018, KLCC.

Brian Bull is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, and remains a contributor to the KLCC news department. He began working with KLCC in June 2016.   In his 27+ years as a public media journalist, he's worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional),  the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from  the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
Related Content