People viewing Eugene’s Feb. 23 City Council meeting, got a surprise when 11-year-old Greta Davis and three girls her age stood up to the podium during City Council’s public comment period.
Davis, alongside other members of her Girl Scout troop, urged City Council to replace the CAHOOTS crisis response service and to keep the new program’s scope of work similar to the program Eugene lost in April.
“Those people who are suffering through houselessness need better care, because they don’t have help with their mental crises when they get hurt and when they are harassed,” Davis told City Council. “We are worried that the new CAHOOTS won’t be the same as the old one we had in the past that provided these resources for unhoused people.”…