When a Bethel School District student needed psychiatric care earlier this year, she was taken to the emergency room before being transferred to Portland for treatment because there are no youth inpatient psychiatric beds in Lane County.
“The family didn’t have the means to transport themselves up to be able to support her, so we rallied and got them gas cards,” Bethel Superintendent Kraig Sproles told the Springfield City Council on Monday, May 18.
Sproles was among 15 people who spoke during a public hearing supporting a proposed behavioral health campus in northwest Springfield that would include a crisis stabilization center and behavioral health hospital…