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Black Mental Health Oregon was one of three nonprofits selected to open and operate a "peer respite center." The new facilities will offer people in mental health crisis a place to stay for up to two weeks. Most offer residents their own bedrooms.
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Editor's note: The initial version of this article inadvertently failed to disclose that an advocate quoted in this article h