It’s been nearly two months since CAHOOTS, Eugene’s groundbreaking street response program, shut down in the city after ...

The problems that, in the hands of police, have often turned violent. Today, the program, called CAHOOTS, has three vans, more than double the number of staffers and the attention of a country in ...

When the prospect of the group’s emergency response team working with the police to start the program CAHOOTS came up 20 years later, there was some uncertainty. “We were a bunch of hippies ...

The sudden departure of Eugene’s most utilized crisis response program, CAHOOTS, has posed more questions than answers. For some, it’s “hard to say” what the community’s future will look ...

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 owners ...

As CAHOOTS garners national attention, the Eugene-based mobile crisis intervention service is asking for $1.8 million of the funding from the city's community safety payroll tax to help stabilize ...

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 ...

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Eugene's alternatives to armed police response, including White Bird Clinic's nationally lauded CAHOOTS program, are an example of best practices but aren't without challenges, a law enforcement ...

Help! We must save CAHOOTS! It is unconscionable to me that the city of Eugene and our entire surrounding community could allow CAHOOTS to basically go under due to lack of funds (Slant, 3/27). There ...