White Bird’s CAHOOTS program, which provides services to people in crisis, will no longer serve the city of Eugene.
Employees had been warning of impending cuts for months, and White Bird had already planned to scale back to two shifts a week: Fridays and Saturdays.
But on Monday, the organization and the City of Eugene issued a joint press release announcing they didn’t have the financial capacity to continue providing CAHOOTS in Eugene, and that service was ending immediately. CAHOOTS, which stands for Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets, will continue to be available in Springfield from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily…