Oregon’s “Cahoots” program was effective, cheap and widely praised—until the relationship between the police department and ...

With the exit of CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets) on April 7 from the city of Eugene after 35 years of ...

It's been 20 days since CAHOOTS stopped operating in Eugene - and those behind the nationally acclaimed crisis response model ...

Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets, or CAHOOTS, was abruptly halted on Monday, April 7, cancelling essential ...

This paper studies the use of mobile crisis response teams—a non-uniformed pair consisting of a mental health worker and a medic—as a component of emergency response to 911 calls. We provide the first ...

Brian Bull / KLCC 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 ...

For more than 30 years, trained civilian responders with CAHOOTS have served the city of Eugene, taking many low-level service calls typically related to homelessness, mental health, and quality of ...

Officials with White Bird Clinic and the City of Eugene announced on April 7 that, with upcoming changes to mobile crisis response services in Eugene, White Bird’s CAHOOTS program services are no ...

Facing a shortfall, Eugene is proposing deep cuts, including layoffs, closing Amazon Pool, ending its CAHOOTS contract and ...

A CAHOOTS van pauses in traffic near the University district in this undated photo. White Bird’s CAHOOTS program, which provides services to people in crisis, will no longer serve the city of Eugene.

EUGENE, Ore. — What happens when those trained to respond to crises disappear? In Downtown Eugene, the sudden loss of CAHOOTS, the city's alternative crisis response program, has left small business ...