Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty visited us to discuss Street Response

Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty speaking at the Lents Neighborhood Association Meeting on January 28, 2020. (Photo by Danelle Painter)

Approximately 80 people came out Tuesday night (1/28/2020) to participate in a Street Response presentation and Q&A organized and hosted by the Lents Neighborhood Association with guests Commissioner Jo Ann HardestyStreet Roots Executive Director Kaia Sand, Portland Fire & Rescue‘s Community Health Assessment Team (CHAT) Manager Tremaine Clayton, and Portland / Multnomah County 911 Bureau Director Bob Cozzie. 

A video recording of the conversation is available here.

Press coverage of the event is available here.

For links to Street Response in the news, scroll to the bottom of this page.

In an effort to continue the conversation beyond that night, the Lents Neighborhood Association is also collecting questions for the Commissioner or any of the other presenters via this form: https://forms.gle/2ZyaKZ14NEajTnxu9 Please submit your questions/feedback. We will publish the answers when they respond — stay tuned!

By Donald Johnson

Interim chair, Nov 2021-Feb 2022